ὄρθρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the time just before]] or <b class="b2">about daybreak, dawn, cock-crow</b> (ἀπ' ὄρθρου μέχρι περ ἂν ἥλιος ἀνάσχῃ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>951d</span>), τάχα δ' ὄ. ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>98</span> ; ἐπειδὰν ὄ. ᾖ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>256</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>496</span>, etc. ; ὄρθρου [[at dawn]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>577</span>, <span class="bibl">Sopat.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Aristopho 10</span> ; ὄρθρου γενομένου <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.198</span> ; ἅμα ὄρθρῳ <span class="bibl">Id.7.188</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.3.112</span>, etc. ; ἐς ὄρθρον <span class="bibl">Theoc.18.56</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>6.6</span> ; κατ' ὄρθρον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>772</span> ; περὶ ὄρθρον <span class="bibl">Th.6.101</span> (cf. [[περίορθρος]]) ; <b class="b3">πρὸς ὄρθρον</b> towards [[dawn]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1089</span> ; πρὸς ὄρθρον γ' ἐστίν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ec.</span>20</span> ; ὑπ' ὄρθρον <span class="bibl">Batr.103</span> ; ὑπὸ τὸν ὄ. <span class="bibl">D.C.76.17</span> ; <b class="b3">τὸν ὄ</b>., abs., [[in the morning]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.181</span> ; <b class="b3">δι' ὄρθρων</b> each [[morning early]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span> 909</span> ; <b class="b3">ὄ. βαθύς</b> dim [[morning twilight]], ἀλλὰ νῦν ὄ. β. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>216</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Cri.</span>43a</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.18.14</span> ; τῆς παρελθούσης νυκτὸς... ἔτι βαθέος ὄ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span> 310a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>24.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Ὄρθρος, ὁ, a mythical dog, son of Typhaon and Echidna, that kept the herds of Geryoneus on the island Erytheia, and was there killed by Heracles, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>309</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">293</span> (v.l. [[Ὄρθος]]).</span>