ὄνος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=![[ὄνος]], ὁ, ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> an ass, Il., Hdt., etc.:—[[proverb]].,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς for an ass's [[shadow]], i. e. for [[nothing]] at all, Lat. de [[lana]] caprina, Ar., Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> ὄνου πόκαι or [[πόκες]], v. [[πόκος]] II.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> ἀπ' ὄνου [[πεσεῖν]], of one who gets [[into]] a [[scrape]] by his own [[clumsiness]], with a pun on ἀπὸ νοῦ [[πεσεῖν]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[ὄνος]] [[ἄγων]] μυστήρια, of one [[heavily]] laden, Ar.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> ὄνου ὑβριστότερος, of [[brutality]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> ὄνου ὦτα [[λαβεῖν]], like [[Midas]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> ὄνων [[φάτνη]] a [[luminous]] [[appearance]] [[between]] the ὄνοι (two stars in the [[breast]] of the Crab), Lat. [[praesepe]], Theocr.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> from the ass as a [[beast]] of [[burden]],<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[windlass]], [[pulley]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[upper]] millstone, [[ὄνος]] [[ἀλέτης]] Xen.:—so, [[μύλος]] [[ὀνικός]] NTest.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[beaker]], [[wine]]-cup, Ar.