γαλέη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=contr. γαλῆ, ῆς, ἡ, a name given to various animals of the <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[weasel]] kind, [[weasel]], [[marten]], [[polecat]] or [[foumart]], <span class="bibl">Batr.9</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span> 255</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pl.</span>693</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>609a17</span>, al.; <b class="b3">εἰ διᾴξειεν γαλῆ</b> (a bad omen) <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>792</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>16.3</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], θύρα δι' ἧς γαλῆ… οὐκ εἰσέρχεται Apollod. Car.<span class="bibl">6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">γ. ἀγρία</b> wild [[ferret]] (found in Africa and Spain, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.192</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>580b26</span>, Ruf.<span class="title">Fr.</span>79, <span class="bibl">Str.3.2.6</span>; γ. Ταρτησσία Hdt. l.c., <span class="bibl">Diogenian.3.71</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">γ. ἐνοικίδιος</b> tame [[weasel]], Plu.2.446c; γ. κατοικίδιος <span class="bibl">Philum.<span class="title">Ven.</span>33.1</span>, Dsc.2.25. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">γαλῆν ἔχεις</b>, of bad luck, <span class="bibl">Diogenian.3.84</span>; <b class="b3">γαλῇ χιτώνιον κροκωτόν</b>, of 'pearls before swine', <span class="bibl">Stratt.71</span>, <span class="bibl">Zen.2.93</span>; <b class="b3">γαλῇ στέαρ</b>, = [[βατράχῳ ὕδωρ]] (q. v.), <span class="bibl">Diogenian.3.83</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a small [[fish]], distinguished from [[γαλεός]] by <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>15.11</span>. (From γαλεyᾱ, Adj. from <b class="b3">*γαλις</b>, cf. Skt. [[girikā]] 'mouse', Lat.[[glīs]].) </span>