ὄλυνθος
ἐάν μή διδάξητε περί ἀρετὴς τούς τό ἀργύριον κλέψαντας, οὐ ταξόμεθα οἱ ὁπλῖται → if you don't teach those who have stolen money a lesson on moral virtue, we, the hoplites, will not line up
English (LSJ)
A v. ὄλονθος.
German (Pape)
[Seite 328] ὁ, eine Feige, die den Winter über hinter dem Blatte nachwächst und selten reif wird; Hes. frg. 14; Her. 1, 193; Theophr. u. Diosc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὄλυνθος: ὁ, σῦκον ὅπερ ἐκφύεται κατὰ τὸν χειμῶνα ὑπὸ τὰ φύλλα, ἀλλ’ ὡς τὸ πρώϊμον σῦκον τοῦ ἔαρος σπανίως ὡριμάζει, Λατ. grossus, Ἡσ. Ἀποσπ. 14, Ἡρόδ. 1. 193, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Αἰτ. 5. 1, 8 ὄλ. οἱ χειμερινοὶ Ἱππ. 574. 23, κτλ. (Συνεχῶς φέρεται ὄλονθος ἐν τῷ Ἑνετ. Κώδ. τοῦ Ἀθην.).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ) :
figue tardive ou qui ne mûrit pas, fruit.
Étymologie: cf. ὄλονθος.
Par. ἰσχάς, ἰσχάδιον, σῦκον, φήληξ, φιβάλεως.
English (Strong)
of uncertain derivation; an unripe (because out of season) fig: untimely fig.
English (Thayer)
ὀλυνθου, ὁ, an unripe fig (Latin grossus), which grows during the winter, yet does not come to maturity but fails off in the spring (cf. B. D. under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Fig): Hesiod from 14; Herodotus 1,193; Dioscorid. 1,185; Theophrastus, caus. plant. 5,9, 12; the Sept. Song of Solomon 2:13.)
