λαιός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), ὁ, a kind of thrush, prob. the <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>617a15</span>, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.19.3</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">λαιός</span> (B), ά, όν, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">left</b>, <b class="b3">λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε</b> (sc. <b class="b3">χειρί</b>) <span class="bibl">Tyrt.15.3</span>; <b class="b3">λαιᾶς χειρός</b> <b class="b2">on the left</b> hand, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>714</span>; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>159</span>; <b class="b3">λαιοῖσι</b> <b class="b2">on the left</b>, <span class="bibl">Parm.17</span>; ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον <span class="bibl">Arat.160</span>, cf. Heliod. ap.Stob.4.36.8; <b class="b3">οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες</b> (sc. <b class="b3">μέρος</b>) <span class="bibl">D.S.13.99</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα</b> (Dor.) <span class="title">IG</span>14.1721.3; τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως <span class="bibl">Philostr.Jun.<span class="title">Im.</span>4</span>. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses <b class="b3">ἀριστερός</b>: also in later Prose, <b class="b3">τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί</b> Prov. ap.<span class="bibl">Plb.38.10.9</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>2.57d</span>, etc.) (Orig. <b class="b3">λαιϝός</b>, cf. Lat.<b class="b2">laevus</b>, Slav. <b class="b2">lèvǔ</b>: in Hsch. we have <b class="b3">λαίβα</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">λαίϝα</b>, = [[ἀσπίς]], because borne on the left arm; cf. <b class="b3">λαῖφα, λαῖτα, λαφός</b>.)</span>