γραῖα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=late Poet. nom. γραίη, Dor. γραία (only gen. sg. in Hom.), ἡ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[old woman]], <span class="bibl">Od.1.438</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>870</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>465</span>, al.: as Adj., <b class="b3">γραῖαι δαίμονες</b>, of the Eumenides, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>150</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">69</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> as Adj., of things, [[old]], γραίας ἐρείκης <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>295</span>; γραίας ἀκάνθης <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>868</span>; γραῖαν ὠλένην <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>1213</span>; γραίᾳ χερί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hec.</span>877</span>; γραιᾶν πηρᾶν <span class="bibl">Theoc.15.19</span>; σταφυλὴ γραίη [[raisins]], AP6.231 (Phil.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">Γραῖαι, αἱ</b>, [[the Graiae]], with hair grey from their birth, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>270</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>262</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> = [[γραῦς]] ''ΙΙ'', [[scum]] or [[skin which forms over boiled milk]], etc., <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>893b32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[folds of skin below the navel]], <span class="bibl">Ruf. <span class="title">Onom.</span>99</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.170</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> = [[γραῦς]] ''III'', [[sea-crab]], <span class="bibl">Epich.61</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> = [[κάρδοπος]], Hsch.</span>