ὁλκή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, ([[ἕλκω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[drawing]], [[trailing]], [[dragging]], e.g. of the [[hair]], A.''Supp.''884; <b class="b3">ἡ τῆς γνάψεως ὁλκή</b> the [[drawing]] of the [[card|carding]] [[instrument]] in fulling [[cloth]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Politicus|Plt.]]'' 282e; <b class="b3">ἀπὸ μιᾶς ὁλκῆς</b> by one [[haul]] or [[pull]], Arist.''Mech.''853b1; ἡ ὁλκὴ τοῦ [[ἄροτρον|ἀρότρου]] S.E.''P.''3.15: metaph., <b class="b3">τοῖς δεινοῖς περὶ λόγων ὁλκήν</b> [[skilled]] in [[drawing]] [[word]]s to a [[false]] [[meaning]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Philebus|Phlb.]]'' 57d.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[inhalation]] (of [[vapour]]), Hp.''Mul.''1.55; <b class="b3">ὁλκὴ πνεύματος</b> [[drawing in]] of the [[breath]], Arist.''Spir.''482a15; <b class="b3">ὁλκὴ τοῦ αἵματος</b> [[suction]] of [[blood]] by the [[cupping-bowl]], Anon. ''in Rh.'' 170.8.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[ray]], [[beam]], prob. cj. for [[ὁλκὸν]] in ''Lyr.Alex.Adesp.''35.19.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a [[drawing on]] or [[drawing towards]] a thing, [[παιδεία]] ἔσθ' ἡ παίδων ὁλκὴ καὶ [[ἀγωγή|ἀγωγὴ]] πρὸς τὸν λόγον Pl.''Lg.''659d.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[attraction]], [[force of attraction]], Id.''Ti.''80c; of a [[magnet]], Epicur.''Fr.''293 (pl.), Ph.1.34; <b class="b3">ἡ ὁλκὴ τῆς ὁμοιότητος</b> the [[attractive force]] of [[similarity]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''435c.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[tendency]], διανοίας πρὸς τὸ ὄν Ph.1.332.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[drawing down]] of the [[scale]], [[weight]], ὁλκὴ ταλάντου χρυσίου Men.383, cf. Arist.''Mir.''833b10, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 9.16.8, Plb.30.25.16, [[LXX]] ''1 Es.''8.62(64), ''IG''22.659.27, 11(2).128.25 (Delos, iii B. C.), etc.; <b class="b3">ὁλκὴν ἄγειν</b> [[weigh]] so much, ''Michel''836.30(Milet.), etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the [[drachma]], as a [[weight]], Dsc.1.30, S.E.''P.'' 1.81, Hero ''*Geom''.23.55, Gal.19.752, Asclep. ap. eund.13.160, Ruf. ''Ren.Ves.''1.11.