Τρωγοδύται
λύχνον μεθ᾿ ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων “ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ” → He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, “I am looking for a human”
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], οἱ, name of an Ethiopian people, Hdt.4.183 (codd.ABC), LXX2 Ch.12.3 (cod. B), Pap. in Class.Phil.19.233,234 (iii B. C.), OGI70 (Egypt, iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank9.2 (i B. C.), Sammelb. 4050, Cic.Div.2.44.93, Plin.HN6.173, al., Mela 1.23, Mart.Cap.6.593, al., v.l. in D.S.1.37: sg. in PCair.Zen.40.2 (iii B. C.), PSI4.332.14 (iii B. C.): hence Τρωγοδῠτικός, ή, όν, A belonging to the Τρωγοδύται, σμύρνα, cf. τρωγλῖτις (where Τρωγλ-) ; -κή, ἡ, their country, D.S. 1.30 (cf. p.lxxi Vogel), Plin.HN6.169, al.; also ἡ Τρωγοδύτις [ῠ] (Τρωγλ-codd.), ιδος, Plu.2.939d, Ael.NA17.3:—the spelling Τρωγλο- (as if A Cave-dwellers) is known to Str.1.2.34 (unless the passage is interpolated) and is freq. f.l. in codd. (so always in codd.Str., as 16.4.4, 17.1.13, al., although he wrote it ἄνευ τοῦ λ acc. to Str.Chr. 16.55), cf. Arist.HA597a9, Dsc.2.160, Hsch.
Greek Monolingual
οἱ, Α
οι Τρωγλοδύτες.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ Παρλλ. τ. της λ. Τρωγλοδύται, χωρίς να είναι δυνατόν να εξακριβωθεί ποιος από τους δύο τ. είναι ο αρχικός].
