ὁλκός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁλκή, ὁλκόν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[drawing to oneself]], [[attractive]], θερμόν τε καὶ ὁ. Arist.''Pr.''931a25; μάθημα ψυχῆς ὁλκὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ γιγνομένου ἐπὶ τὸ ὄν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 521d; <b class="b3">ὁλκὸν.. ψυχῆς πρὸς ἀλήθειαν</b> ib.527b; ὁλκοτέρας τὰς ῥίζας ποιεῖν [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''CP''3.17.3 (ἑλκοτέρας cod. A: ἑλκτικωτέρας Wimmer).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[trailing]], ὁλκὰ βαίνων Hld.10.30. Adv. Comp. [[ὁλκότερον]] = [[slowly]], Id.3.5.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[possible]], ὁλκά· δυνατά, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">IV</span> Pass., [[liable to be attracted]], [[having a propensity]], ὁ. διάνοιαι παρθένων πρὸς ἀρετήν Ph.2.229.<br><br>ὁ, ([[ἕλκω]]):<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[machine for hauling]] [[ship]]s on [[land]], [[hauling]] [[engine]], prob. a fixed [[capstan]], [[windlass]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.154, 159, E.''Rh.''146,673; but also of [[movable]] [[engine]]s of like kind, for [[hauling]] [[ship]]s across the [[Isthmus]] of [[Corinth]], Th.3.15.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[strap]], [[rein]] (cf. [[ῥυτήρ]]), τμητοῖς ὁλκοῖς S.''El.''863 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[furrow]], [[track]], [[trace]], αἵματι δ' ὁλκοὶ.. πλήθοντο A.R.3.1391; <b class="b3">σμίλης ὁλκός</b> the [[trace]]s of a [[chisel]] in the [[wood]], Ar.''Th.'' 779(lyr.); <b class="b3">ὁλκὸς τοῦ ξύλου</b> the [[furrow]] made by the [[wood]], X.''Cyn.''9.18; [[path]], [[track]], or [[orbit]] of a [[star]] or [[meteor]], A.R.3.141, 4.296, [[Nonnus Epicus|Nonn.]] ''[[Dionysiaca|D.]]'' 24.90; ἁμάξης ib.1.96; [[ditch]] or [[channel]], A.R.1.375; <b class="b3">οἴδματος ὁλκοί</b> the [[wave]]s, ib.1167; ὁλκοὶ καλλιρόων ὑδάτων ''Milet.''1(9).343; [[body]]-[[coil]]s of a [[serpent]], Nic.''Th.''266, al., Luc.''Herm.''79; but, [[coiling]] [[movement]] of a [[serpent]], Nic.''Th.''162, al.; cf. ὁλκὸς γλώσσης Id.''Al.''79, 281; of [[hair]], [[coil]], <b class="b3">ὁλκὸς ἐθείρης, πλοκάμων.. ὁλκοί</b>, [[Nonnus Epicus|Nonn.]] ''[[Dionysiaca|D.]]'' 3.413, 32.168: generally, of anything drawn, <b class="b3">αἵματος ὁλκῷ</b> ib.4.329, al.; [[draught]] of [[wine]], Antiph. 237.4(pl.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> in periphrases, <b class="b3">δάφνης ὁλκοί</b> [[drawing]]s, i.e. [[laurel]] [[bough]]s (or [[broom]]s made of them) [[drawn along]], [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''145 (lyr.); <b class="b3">τερπνὸς ἀκούεται ὁλκὸς ἁμάξης</b> a [[chariot]] [[drawn]], D.P.191.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[aqueduct]], Cod.Just.1.4.26; ὁ. ὑδάτων Lyd.''Mens.''3.23.<br><span class="bld">III</span> a kind of [[spider]], Dsc.2.63.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[grass]], [[mouse-barley]], Plin.''HN'' 27.90.