τρίβολος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ὁ, name of various prickly plants, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">a</span> [[water-chestnut]], [[Trapa natans]], τ. ἔνυδρος <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.9.1</span>, Dsc.4.15. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[caltrops]], [[Tribulus terrestris]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>576</span>; <b class="b3">τ. περικαρπιάκανθος, χερσαῖος</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>3.1.6</span>, <span class="bibl">6.1.3</span>, Dsc. [[l.c.]]; ἄκανθαι καὶ τ. <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ge.</span>3.18</span>; βάτοι καὶ τ. <span class="bibl">Ph.1.680</span>, cf. <span class="title">IG</span>14.1934f1 (Rome):—<span class="bibl">Alc.47</span> calls sour wine <b class="b3">ὀξύτερος τριβόλων</b>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> <b class="b3">τ. φυλλάκανθος</b>, [[thorny trefoil]], [[Fagonia cretica]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.5.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span> <b class="b3">τ. παραθαλάσσιος</b>, [[prickly samphire]], [[Echinophora spinosa]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span>32</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">τρίβολοι, οἱ,</b> [[a threshing-machine]], [[a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom]], <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>85.36</span>, al., <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">2 Ki.</span>12.31</span>, <span class="bibl">Longus 3.30</span>; <b class="b3">τ. ξύλινος</b> (in the section <b class="b3">περὶ κάρρων</b>) <span class="title">Edict.Diocl.</span>15.41; τριβόλους ἀχυρότριβας <span class="title">AP</span>6.104 (Phil.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[caltrop]], i. e. a four-spiked implement thrown on the ground to lame the enemy's horses, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>100.7</span>, Plu.2.200a, <span class="bibl">Polyaen.1.39.2</span>, <span class="bibl">4.3.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdn.4.15.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Procop.<span class="title">Goth.</span>3.24</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">τ. πηχῶν έ</b> a larger contrivance for stopping boulders, etc., thrown down a slope, <span class="bibl">Ath.Mech. 38.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> <b class="b3">οἱ κατακρημνώμενοι τ</b>. an instrument hung from the walls of a fortress as a defence against battering-rams, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>100.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span> a kind of missile, τριβόλων σιδηρῶν σφενδονῆται <span class="bibl">D.H.20.1</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ τ. οἱ καιόμενοι</b> a kind of incendiary missile, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>100.20</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">94.9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> part of the bit of a bridle, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>782</span> (a).<span class="bibl">9</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl">Poll.1.148</span>, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> dub. sens. in naval dockyard records, σίδηρος ἐκ τοῦ τ. <span class="title">IG</span>22.1629.1154, 1631.338. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> as adjective, [[three-tiered]], πυρὰ πυργοειδὴς τ. <span class="bibl">D.C.74.5</span>.</span>

|elnltext=τρίβολος -ου, ὁ [τρι-, βάλλω] distel (plant);. ὀξύτερος τριβόλων (wijn) scherper dan distels Alc. 369.2.