ληνός
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
Dor. λᾱνός Theoc.7.25, IG14.150.5 (Syracuse): ἡ:—
A anything shaped like a tub or trough, Hp.Mochl.38; esp. 1 winevat in which the grapes are pressed, PCair.Zen.300.15 (iii B.C.), Theoc.7.25, 25.28, D.S.3.63. 2 trough, for watering cattle, watering-place for them, h.Merc.104, LXX Ge.30.38,41. 3 = κάρδοπος, kneading-trough, Men.116. 4 socket into which the mast fitted, = ἱστοπέδη, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath.11.474f, Poll.1.91. 5 coffin, Pherecr.5, CIG1979, al. (Thessalonica), IGl.c. 6 part of the brain, the meeting-point of the sinuses of the dura mater, still called torcular Herophili, Herophil. ap. Gal.2.712, cf. UP9.6. 7 hollow of a chariot, Hsch. (pl.). 8 in pl., the lower parts of the nose, Poll.2.80.
German (Pape)
[Seite 40] ἡ, auch ὁ, alles kusen-, wannenförmige; – a) der Trog zum Tränken des Viehes, H. h. Merc. 104, Philostr. u. a. – b) gew. die Kufe, in welche die zu kelternden Weintrauben geworfen werden, Kelter, nach B. A. 277 γεωργικὸν σκεῦος, ἀγγεῖον δεκτικὸν οἴνου ξύλινον, ib. 71 αἷς τοὺς βότρυς πατοῦσιν; Theocr. 25, 28 u. öfter, wie in der Anth.; D. Sic. 3, 63 u. sonst in Prosa. – c) der Sarg, B. A. 51; vgl. Poll. 10, 150 u. daselbst Phereer. – d) Backtrog, Men. Poll. 7, 22. – e) nach Ath. XI, 474 f der Stand, in den der Mastbaum mit seinem unteren Ende eingefügt wird; vgl. Poll. 1, 91. – Nach Hesych. auch der Kutschensitzkasten. – Bei Poll. 2, 80 der untere Theil der Nasenspitze.
