ἴξαλος
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
English (LSJ)
ον, epith. of the Ibex,= τέλειος acc. to Ar.Byz. ap. Eust. 1625.33, or
A bounding, springing (as Sch.Il., Hsch., etc.), or = τομίας (as Porph. ap. Sch.Il.), ἰξάλου αἰγὸς ἀγρίου Il.4.105, cf. AP6.32 (Agath.), 113 (Simm.), 9.99 (Leon.). (Perh. borrowed fr. Asia Minor.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1255] ὁ (nach VLL. entweder von ἀΐσσω, πηδητικός, od. von ἵξαι u. ἅλλεσθαι, richtiger wohl von ἵκω unmittelbar, wenn es nicht ein eigener Stamm ist), Beiwort der wilden Ziege, des Steinbocks, kletternd, τόξον ἐΰξοον ἰξάλο υ αἰγός Il. 4, 105, Schol. zu vgl.; ἴξαλος εὐπώγων αἰγὸς πόσις Leon. Tar. 61 (XI, 99); Ag. 29 (VI, 32).
