κλείς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, gen. [[κλειδός]]; Att.acc. [[κλεῖν]], v.infr.1.3, ''III'', later<br><span class="bld">A</span> κλεῖδα ''AP'' 6.306 (Aristo), Plu.''Art.''9: pl. [[κλεῖδες]], [[κλεῖδας]], contr. [[κλεῖς]], v. infr. ''III'', dat. κλεισίν Pl.''Ax.''371b:—Ion. [[κληΐς]] [ῑ], κληῗδος, κληῗδα, etc. (Hom. uses only the Ion. form):—Dor. κλᾱΐς, κλαΐδος [ῐ] Simon.23, Pi.''P.''9.39; but acc. pl. [[κλαῗδας]] ib.8.4; acc. κλαῖδα or κλᾷδα Call.''Cer.''45; cf. [[κλᾴξ]]:—Aeol. [[κλᾶϊς]] ([[κλαῖς]] cod.)· [[μοχλός]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; [[κλάϊς]] acc. [[κλάϊν]] ''Et.Gud.''ap.Schaefer ''Greg.Cor.''p.584: pl. <b class="b3">κλᾷδες κλᾶδες</b> cod.)· ζυγά, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]:—old Att. [[κλῄς]], [[κλῇδος]], acc. κλῇδα [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Medea|Med.]]'' 212 (anap.), 661 (lyr.): [[κλείς]] and [[κλῄς]] in the same Att. Inscr., ''IG''22.1414.44 and 47. (κλᾱϝῑς, cf. Lat. [[clavis]], [[claudo]].)<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[bar]], [[bolt]], <b class="b3">θύρας σταθμοῖσιν ἐπῆρσε</b> (''[[sc.]]'' Hera, from within) κληῗδι κρυπτῇ Il.14.168, cf. Od.21.241; <b class="b3">κληῗδος ἱμάς</b> ib.4.802, cf. 838; ἐπὶ δὲ κληῗδ' ἐτάνυσσεν ἱμάντι 1.442; = [[ἐπιβλής]], Il.24.455.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[catch]] or [[hook]], passed through the [[door]] from the outside to [[catch]] the [[strap]] ([[ἱμάς]]) attached to the [[bar]] ([[ὀχεύς]]), ἐν δὲ κληῗδ' ἧκε, θυρέων δ' ἀνέκοπτεν ὀχῆας ἄντα τιτυσκομένη Od.21.47, cf.50; οἴξασα κληῗδι θύρας Il.6.89; δοιοὶ δ' ἔντοσθεν ὀχῆες εἶχον ἐπημοιβοί, μία δὲ κληῒς ἐπαρήρει 12.456, cf.Parm.1.14.<br><span class="bld">3</span> later, [[key]], τὴν κλεῖν ἐφέλκεται Lys.1.13; <b class="b3">κλεῖν παρακλείδιον</b> a false [[key]], Pl.Com.77: pl., κλῇδας οἶδα δώματος A.''Eu.''827, cf.E.''Ba.''448; Λακωνικὴ κ. Men.343; κυριεύσοντα τῶν κ. ''OGI''229.56 (Smyrna, iii B.C.); of a [[sacred]] [[key]] carried in [[procession]]s, ''SIG''900.14 (Panamara, iv A.D.), 996.24 (Smyrna, perhaps i A.D.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> metaph., Ἁσυχία βουλᾶν τε καὶ πολέμων ἔχοισα κλαῗδας Pi.''P.''8.4, cf. 9.39; <b class="b3">ἔστι κἀμοὶ κλῂς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ</b>, of silence, A.''Fr.''316, cf.[[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''1052 (lyr.); καθαρὰν ἀνοῖξαι κλῇδα φρενῶν [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Medea|Med.]]'' 661 (lyr.); <b class="b3">κλῇδας γάμου φυλάττει</b>, of [[Hera]], Ar.''Th.''976 (lyr.); of the [[key]] to a [[problem]], Vett.Val.179.4.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[hook]] or [[tongue]] of a [[clasp]], Od.18.294.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[stop-cock]], Hero ''Spir.''1.25.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[collar-bone]], prob. so called from its hook shape (v. supr. 1.2), Hom. (only in Il.), ὅθι κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.325; κληῗδα παρ' ὦμον πλῆξ', ἀπὸ δ' αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδ' ἀπὸ νώτου 5.146; ᾗ κληῗδες ἀπ' ὤμων αὐχέν' ἔχουσι 22.324, cf. Hp.Aër.7, ''Art.''13; πᾳῖσον ἐμᾶς ὑπὸ κλῇδος S.''Tr.''1035; τὴν κλεῖν συνετρίβην And.1.61; τὴν κλεῖν κατεαγώς D.18.67: pl., Diog. Apoll.6, etc.; τὰ πλάγια καὶ τὰς κλεῖδας [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''513b35; <b class="b3">αἱ κλεῖδες</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[κλεῖς]]) <b class="b3"> καὶ αἱ πλευραί</b>, of the [[crocodile]], ib.516a28; <b class="b3">κλεῖδες ὀπταί</b> roast [[shoulder bone]]s of the [[tunny]] (with play on 1.3, [[visible]] [[key]]s, opp. <b class="b3">κρυπταὶ κλεῖδες</b> of the Laconians), Aristopho 7.2, cf. Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.8.357a.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[rowing bench]] in a [[ship]], freq. in Od., always in plural; ἐπὶ κληῗσι [[καθίζειν]] 2.419, etc.; κληΐδεσσιν ἐφήμενοι 12.215; once in Il., πεντήκοντ' ἔσαν ἄνδρες ἐπὶ κληῗσιν 16.170; δησάμενοι… ἐπὶ κληῗσιν ἐρετμά Od.8.37.<br><span class="bld">V</span> of promontories, straits, etc., [[Κληῗδες]] or Κληΐδες τῆς Κύπρου [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.108, cf.Str.14.6.3; <b class="b3">πόντου κλῇδ</b>', of the [[Bosporus]], [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Medea|Med.]]'' 212 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">VI</span> in plural, [[sacred chaplets]], Id.''Tr.''256 (anap.) (Ephes., acc. to [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]).<br><span class="bld">VII</span> in versification, [[clausula]], [[cadence]], Sch.Ar.''Pax''1127.