Ἄδωνις
Οὐδ' ἄμμε διακρινέει φιλότητος ἄλλο, πάρος θάνατόν γε μεμορμένον ἀμφικαλύψαι → Nor will anything else divide us from our love before the fate of death enshrouds us
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], ιδος (also ιος Pherecr.198), ὁ, Adonis,
A ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν Sapph.63; Ἀδώνι' ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄ. κλάομεν Pherecr.170; ὥδωνις, i.e. ὁ Ἄ., Theoc.3.47:—hence, generally, favourite, darling, δεῖ Ἀδώνιδας αὐτοὺς ἀκούειν Luc.Merc.Cond.35, cf. Alciphr.1.39, AP5.112 (Marc.Arg.). 2 Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι cuttings planted in pots for the Adonia, Pl.Phdr.276b, Thphr.HP6.7.3, cf. Theoc.15.113: prov., of any short-lived pleasure, Sch.Pl.l.c. 3 αὐλὴ Ἀδώνιδος, at Rome, garden on the Palatine, Philostr.VA7.32. II kind of flying-fish, = ἐξώκοιτος, Clearch.73, Opp.H. 1.157, etc. III Adonis-flower, Anemone fulgens, Aus.Idyll.6.11.
