γραῖα
Ὥσπερ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἡλίου μὴ ὄντος καυστικοῦ, ἀλλ' οὔσης ζωτικῆς καὶ ζωοποιοῦ θέρμης ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπλήκτου, ὁ ἀὴρ παθητικῶς δέχεται τὸ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ ϕῶς καὶ καυστικῶς· οὕτως οὖν ἁρμονίας οὔσης ἐν αὐτοῖς τινὸς καὶ ἑτέρου εἴδους ϕωνῆς ἡμεῖς παθητικῶς ἀκούομεν → Just as although the Sun itself does not cause burning but has a heat in it that is life-giving, life-engendering, and mild, the air receives light from it by being affected and burned, so also although there is a certain harmony and a different kind of voice in them, we hear it by being affected.
English (LSJ)
late Poet. nom. γραίη, Dor. γραία (only gen. sg. in Hom.), ἡ,
A old woman, Od.1.438, S.Tr.870, E.Tr.465, al.: as Adj., γραῖαι δαίμονες, of the Eumenides, A.Eu.150 (lyr.), cf. 69. 2 as Adj., of things, old, γραίας ἐρείκης Id.Ag.295; γραίας ἀκάνθης S.Fr.868; γραῖαν ὠλένην E.Ion1213; γραίᾳ χερί Id.Hec.877; γραιᾶν πηρᾶν Theoc.15.19; σταφυλὴ γραίη raisins, AP6.231 (Phil.). 3 Γραῖαι, αἱ, the Graiae, with hair grey from their birth, Hes.Th.270, prob. in A.Fr.262. II = γραῦς 11, scum or skin which forms over boiled milk, etc., Arist.Pr.893b32. III folds of skin below the navel, Ruf. Onom.99, Poll.2.170. IV = γραῦς 111, sea-crab, Epich.61. V = κάρδοπος, Hsch.
German (Pape)
[Seite 503] ἡ (γεραιά), die Alte, das alte Weib, Hom. einmal, Odyss. 1, 438 γραίης, var. lect. γρηός, s. Scholl.; Soph. Tr. 870 γραῖα; Ar. Th. 1024; Eur. öfter; auch Plat. Lys. 205 d; adj., γραῖα μήτηρ Eur Heracl. 584; Phoen. 1443; γυναῖκες Hec. 323; γραῖαι παλαιαὶ παῖδες Aesch. Eum. 68; vgl. Theocr. 6, 40. 7, 126; übertr., γρ. ἐρείκη Aesch. Ag. 290; ἄκανθα Soph. frg. 748; vgl. γραῖος u. Nom. pr.
