φοινίκεος
ὥστε ὁ βίος, ὢν καὶ νῦν χαλεπός, εἰς τὸν χρόνον ἐκεῖνον ἀβίωτος γίγνοιτ' ἂν τὸ παράπαν → and so life, which is hard enough now, would then become absolutely unendurable
English (LSJ)
[ῑ], έα, εον: (
A φοῖνιξ B.1):—purple-red, crimson, and (generally) red, νέφος Xenoph.32.2; ῥόδα Pi.I.4(3).18(36); προμαχεῶνες Hdt.1.98; εἷμα Id.2.132, cf. 7.76, 9.22; ὄνυχες Hp.Int.29; σύκινα φ., a variety of fig, PCair.Zen.33.12 intr. (iii B.C.); metaph., blushing, αἰδώς Erinn.Fr.i B 34 Diehl2; contr. φοινῑκοῦς, ῆ, οῦν, Hp. Mul.1.95, X.An.1.2.16, Cyr.7.1.2, Arist.HA592b24, Dsc.3.153; σκηναί Plb.6.41.7; χιτών, as signal for battle, Plu.Pomp.68, Brut.40; γράμματα D.C.40.18; τὸ φ. dark red, Arist.Metaph.1057a25, al.; less bright than τὸ ἁλουργές, Id.Col.792a14 (φοινικά must be corrected to φοινικᾶ in Dsc.2.176, cf. Suid. s.v. φοινικᾶ (but φοινικιᾶ Id. s.v. ἁπλᾶ)). II prob. f.l. for Φοινικικός, Thphr.HP3.12.3.
