pile
ὦ πολλῶν ἤδη λοπάδων τοὺς ἄμβωνας περιλείξας → you who have licked the labia of many vaginas (Eupolis fr. 52)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
stake: P. σταυρός, ὁ, Ar. and P. χάραξ, ὁ or ἡ, V. σκόλοψ, ὁ (also Xen.).
heap: Ar. and P. σωρός, ὁ (Xen.), Ar. and V. θωμός, ὁ, V. θίς, ὁ or ἡ.
pile of stones: V. λάϊνα ἐξογκώματα (Euripides, Hercules Furens 1332).
amid a pile of arms: V. σκύλων ἐν ὄχλῳ (Euripides, Hecuba 1014).
funeral pile: P. and V. πυρά, ἡ, V. πυρκαία, ἡ.
verb transitive
pile up (a mound): P. and V. χοῦν.
collect: P. and V. συλλέγειν, συμφέρειν.
pile on: P. and V. ἐπιτιθέναι (τί τινι), ἐπιβάλλειν (τί τινι).
axles were piled on axles and dead on dead: V. ἄξονες τ' ἐπ' ἄξοσι νεκροί τε νεκροῖς ἐξεσωρεύονθ' ὁμοῦ (Euripides, Phoenissae 1194).
pile up: P. ἐπιπαρανεῖν, Ar. ἐπινεῖν.
Met., see increase.
piling up the banked clouds: V. συντιθεὶς πυκνὸν νέφος (Euripides, Fragment).
you see how many stones he has piled up over it (the cave): Ar. ὁρᾷς ὅσους ἄνωθεν ἐπεφόρησε τῶν λίθων (Pax. 224).
