τυφλός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τυφλή, τυφλόν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[blind]], once in Hom., Il.6.139, cf. ''h.Ap.''172, freq. in other writers; τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος S.''OT''454; <b class="b3">τυφλὸς Ἄρης, τυφλὸς Πλοῦτος</b>, Id.''Fr.''838, Theoc.10.19; <b class="b3">τ. ὄψις, ὀφθαλμοί</b>, E.''Cyc.''697, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 518c, etc.: c. gen., <b class="b3">τ. τινός</b> [[blind to]]... X.''Smp.''4.12, Plu.''Sol.''12; but <b class="b3">τυφλὸς τῆς προνοίας</b> [[lacking]] [[vision]] of the [[future]], Id.2.975c; <b class="b3">τὰ τυφλὰ τοῦ σώματος</b>, i.e. one's [[back]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''3.3.45; [[καὶ τυφλῷ γε δῆλον]] = [[even a blind man can see that]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 55od; for Cratin.6, v. [[κωφός]] II.2.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of the [[limb]]s of the [[blind]], τυφλὸς [[πούς]] E.''Hec.''1050, ''Ph.''834, etc. (cf. [[τυφλόπους]]); [[χείρ]] ib. 1699; [[βάκτρον]], τοξεύματα, Id.''Ion'' 744, ''HF''199.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph. of the other senses and the mind, τ. ἦτορ Pi.''N.''7.23; τυφλὸς τά τ' ὦτα, τόν τε νοῦν, τά τ' ὄμματ' εἶ S.''OT''371; <b class="b3">τὴν τέχνην ἔφυ τ.</b> ib.389.<br><span class="bld">4</span> metaph., τυφλὸς [[ὄλβος]] E.''Fr.''776; ἡ [[φύσις]] ἄνευ μαθήσεως τυφλόν Plu.2.2b; <b class="b3">τῇ τύχῃ... ἣν τυφλὴν λοιδοροῦμεν</b> ib.98a; τ. ἔδραμε πᾶσα τρόπις ''AP''9.289 (Bass.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> of things, [[dark]], [[dim]], [[obscure]], ἐλπίδες A.''Pr.''252; ἄτη S.''Tr.''1104; τὸ δ' ἐς αὔριον αἰεὶ τ. ἕρπει Id.''Fr.''593.6 (lyr.); <b class="b3">τυφλαὶ σπιλάδες</b> [[blind]] [[rock]]s, ''AP''7.275 (Gaet.); αἱ ἄνευ ἐπιστήμης δόξαι τυφλαί [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 506c; δεσμῶν τυφλαὶ ἀρχαί [[hidden]], Plu.''Alex.''18; τ. ὑπόνοια Id.2.587c; <b class="b3">τυφλὸν κίνημα</b>, of [[revolution]], Id.''Galb.''18.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of passages or apertures, [[blind]], [[closed]], [[with no outlet]], <b class="b3">τοῦ ἐντέρου τυφλόν τι</b>, of the [[intestinum caecum]] (<b class="b3">τὸ τυφλόν</b> in Gal.''UP''4.18, al.), [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[De Partibus Animalium|PA]]'' 675b7, cf. 676a5; τυφλὸν [[ἔντερον]] Ruf. ap. Orib.7.26.25; τυφλὸν [[τρῆμα]] = the [[foramen]] [[caecum]] (stylo-mastoid), Ruf.''Onom.''144, Gal.''UP''9.10; τ. στενωποί Str.1.1.17; τ. ὁδοί Anon. ap. Suid.; <b class="b3">τυφλὴ ῥύμη</b> a [[blind]] [[alley]], ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]'' 99.9 (i A. D.); of [[river]]s and [[harbour]]s, [[choked with mud]], Plu.''Sull.'' 20 (v. [[τυφλόστομος]]), cf. ''Caes.''58; of the [[halcyon]]'s [[nest]], [[closed]], [[tight]], Id.2.983d; <b class="b3">τυφλοὶ ὄζοι</b> [[branch]]es [[without]] [[bud]]s or [[eye]]s, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 1.8.4, cf. ''CP''3.2.8; τυφλὸν [[κῦμα]] [[dark]], [[trackless]], AP7.400 (Serapio), 12.156; τυφλὸς [[μώλωψ]] = a [[wound]] [[without an outlet]], Plu.''Aem.''19; <b class="b3">τὸ τυφλὸν ἅμμα καλούμενον</b> the so-called [[unescapable]] [[knot]], Gal.2.669; of a [[hook]] (cf. [[τυφλάγκιστρον]]), [[blunt]], Orib.45.18.9.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Adv., <b class="b3">πρὸς τὸ ὠφέλιμον τυφλῶς ἔχειν</b> to be [[blind]] to it, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 479b; [[τυφλῶς]] καὶ [[ἀσκέπτως]] Antip.Stoic. 3.256; τ. καὶ οὐ [[γνωρίμως]] διασαφεῖ Str.9.5.21. [ῠ by nature, S.''OT'' 389, E.''Hec.''1050, etc., freq. ῡ by position: prob. not connected with [[τύφω]] [ῡ]: perhaps cf. Goth. daufs, OE. déaf '[[stupid]]', Olr. [[dub]] '[[black]]'.]