μύουρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(B), ἡ, a plant, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[mouse-tail]], Orib.<span class="title">Fr.</span>52, <span class="bibl">Alex.Trall.8.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[σάμψυχον]], Ps.-Dsc.3.39.</span><br /><span class="bld">μύουρ-ος</span> (A), ον, (μῦς, οὐρά) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[tapering]] (lit. [[mousetailed]]), of a non-carnivorous fish's [[στόμα]] (snout), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>662a32</span>, <span class="bibl">697a1</span>; of the αἱμόρροος ''ΙΙ'', ἐπ' εὖρος τέτρυται μύουρος ἀπὸ φλογέοιο καρήνου <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>287</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">225</span>; ἐξ εὐρείας τῆς κεφαλῆς μείουρος κάτεισιν ἔστε ἐπὶ τὴν οὐράν <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>15.13</span><b class="b3">· εἰς (ἐπὶ) μείουρον ἄγεσθαι</b> [[taper]] towards the tail, <span class="bibl">Philum.<span class="title">Ven.</span>21.1</span>, <span class="bibl">27.1</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τῷ μειούρῳ τῆς οὐρᾶς</b> the [[tapering part]] of a horse's tail, <span class="title">Hippiatr.</span>55; <b class="b3">τὸ μείουρον</b> (sc. <b class="b3">τοῦ σπέρματος</b>) πρὸς τὴν γῆν ἄγοντας <span class="title">Gp.</span>10.57.8, cf. 10.63.4; κάμαξ μύουρος <span class="bibl">Apollod.<span class="title">Poliorc.</span>172.9</span> (v.l. [[μεί]]-), <span class="bibl">182.6</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>51.8</span> ([[μύ]]-), <span class="bibl">83.20</span> (μεί-) ; πύργον… ἐς μύουρον ἀνιόντα <span class="bibl">Paus.10.16.1</span>; αἱ πρὸς ὄμμα τε καὶ ὀρθογώνιοι στοαὶ πόρρωθεν μείουροι φαίνονται Hero <b class="b2">*Deff</b>.135.9 (v.l. [[μύ-]]) <b class="b3">; μετρεῖ τὰ μείουρα ὡς κώνους κολούρους</b>, i.e. roughly, ib.8; <b class="b3">σφὴν μείουρος</b> Id.<b class="b2">*Stereom</b>.1.28; <b class="b3">λίθος μείουρος</b> ib.2.17 (v.l. [[μύ]]-), 59; <b class="b3">ξύλον μύουρον</b> Id.<b class="b2">*Mens</b>.8 (as Subst. [[μείουρος]], [[ὁ]], [[tapering prism]], Id.<b class="b2">*Deff</b>.133.2, <b class="b2">*Geom</b>.3.24); ἐκφύσεις κατὰ τὸ ἄκρον μείουροι <span class="bibl">Diocl.Fr.27</span>; <b class="b3">μείουρος σχηματισμὸς [τῶν δακτύλων</b>], i.e. with the tips pressed together, <span class="bibl">Sor.2.60</span>; μύουρον σχῆμα <span class="bibl">Str.2.5.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Apollod.<span class="title">Poliorc.</span>181.3</span>; <b class="b3">μερίς, τμῆμα, γραμμή</b>, <span class="bibl">Str.11.11.7</span>. Adv., συνηγμένων μειούρως τῶν δακτύλων <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg.6.74</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">στίχοι μείουροι</b> 'tapering' hexameters, in which the first syllable of one of the last two feet is short instead of long, <span class="bibl">Ath. 14.632e</span>, cf. Sch.Heph.<span class="bibl">p.290</span> C., <span class="bibl">Eust.900.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of the pulse, [[dying away gradually]], Gal.8.480,524, 9.314. Adv. -ρως ibid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> of an epic poem with only a single <b class="b3">μῦθος, ὥστε… βραχέως δεικνύμενον μύουρον φαίνεσθαι</b> it seems [[too short]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1462b6</span>; of periods, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1409b18</span>. (In this group of words codd. freq. vary between μυ- and μει-; both [[μυουρία]] and [[μειουρία]] are recognized by Eust. l. c.: μυ- prob. became μει- by phonetic change, cf. [[ἐρρηγεῖα]], [[κώδεια]], etc.: μῠ- <span class="bibl">Nic. <span class="title">Th.</span>225</span>, D.P.l.c., but μῡ- <span class="bibl">Nic. <span class="title">Th.</span>287</span>.)</span>