Σμινθεύς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=έως, ὁ, epith. of Apollo, <span class="bibl">Il.1.39</span>; either (from [[Σμίνθος]] or [[Σμίνθη]] a town in the Troad, Hsch., St. Byz.) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the Sminthian]]; or (from [[σμίνθος]]) [[mouse-killer]], Sch. ad loc., cf. <span class="bibl">Str.13.1.48</span> and <span class="bibl">64</span>:—also Σμίνθιος, ὁ, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>12.5</span>, Sch.Il.l.c.; [[Σμίνθιος]], [[ὁ]] (sc. [[μήν]]), name of a month at Rhodes, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1131,12(1).1068.2, al.; written <b class="b3">Ζμ-</b>, ib.1149.8, al.: Σμίνθεια, τά, [[games at festival of Apollo]] <b class="b3">Σμινθεύς, Μους. Σμυρν</b>. 1876p.125 (Troad).</span>

|auten=voc. Σμινθεῦ: Smintheus, epith. of [[Apollo]], explained by [[ancient]] commentators as [[meaning]] [[destroyer]] of [[field]]-mice (σμίνθοι). (The [[cut]], showing a [[mouse]] at [[work]], is reproduced [[from]] the tetradrachm of [[Metapontum]].)