πέτρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ (in later Poets ἡ, <span class="title">AP</span>7.274 (Honest.), <span class="bibl">479</span> (Theodorid.), <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[stone]] (distd. from [[πέτρα]], q. v.); in Hom., used by warriors, λάζετο πέτρον μάρμαρον ὀκριόεντα <span class="bibl">Il.16.734</span> ; βαλὼν μυλοειδέϊ πέτρῳ <span class="bibl">7.270</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">20.288</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>1128</span> (never in Od.); ἔδικε πέτρῳ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).72</span>; ἄγαλμ' Ἀΐδα ξεστὸν π. ἔμβαλον στέρνῳ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>10.67</span>; νιφάδι γογγύλων πέτρων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>199.7</span>; ἐκ χερῶν πέτροισιν ἠράσσοντο <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pers.</span>460</span>; λευσθῆναι πέτροις <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>435</span>; πέτρους ἐπεκυλίνδουν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.5.20</span>, etc.; [[ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων]], by grinding stone against stones (to [[produce]] [[fire]]), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>296</span>; of a [[boulder]] forming a landmark, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OC</span>1595</span>; τόνδ' ἀνέθηκα π. ἀειράμενος <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).125 (Epid., iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[proverb|prov.]], [[πάντα κινῆσαι πέτρον]] = '[[leave no stone unturned]]', <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>1002</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>843a</span>; of [[imperturbability]], καὶ γὰρ ἂν πέτρου φύσιν σύ γ' ὀργάνειας <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>334</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>28</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[reed]], <span class="bibl">Peripl.M.Rubr.65</span>.—The usual prose word is [[λίθος]].</span>