ἡθμός
τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ' ἐσθλὸν τῷδ' ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν → evil appears as good to him whose mind the god is leading to destruction (Sophocles, Antigone 622f.)
English (LSJ)
SIG2 (Sigeum, vi B.C.), Hdn.Gr.1.543, in codd. usually (but perhaps wrongly) ἠθμός, ὁ, (ἤθω)
A strainer, colander, SIG l.c., E.Fr. 374, IG22.1416.11, 4.39.20, Gal.Nat.Fac.1.15; esp. wine-strainer, Pherecr.41; part of an eel-trap, Arist.HA534a22; of the eyelashes, X.Mem.1.4.6; prov., τῷ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν, of fruitless toil, Arist.Oec. 1344b25.
II ἡθμὸς σχοίνινος,= κημός III, Cratin.132, cf. AP9.482.23 (Agath.).
III sluice or weir (?), IG11(2).287 A75 (Delos, iii B.C.).
French (Bailly abrégé)
anc. att. c. ἠθμός.
Translations
strainer
Bikol Central: sernian; Bulgarian: цедка; Catalan: colador; Chinese Dutch: filter, vergiet; Esperanto: kribrilo; Finnish: siivilä; French: filtre; Georgian: თუშფალანგი; German: Sieb, Durchschlag; Greek: σουρωτήρι, στραγγιστήρι, τρυπητό; Ancient Greek: διέραμα, διυλιστήρ, ἠθάνιον, ἠθμός, ἡθμός, κυρτίδιον, κυρτίς, κύρτος, πλόκανον, σάκκος, σάκος; Icelandic: sigti; Irish: síothlán; Italian: colino, colatoio; Japanese: 濾過器, ストレーナー; Latin: colum; Malayalam: അരിപ്പ; Mandarin: 濾器, 滤器, 過濾器, 过滤器, 網濾, 网滤, 笊籬; Maori: tātari; Occitan: filtre, colador, mancha; Persian: ماشوب; Plautdietsch: Säw; Polish: sito, cedzak; Portuguese: peneira; Romanian: strecurătoare; Russian: сито, фильтр, ситечко, дуршлаг; Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan; Serbo-Croatian: цедило, cedilo, цједило, cjedilo; Slovak: sito, cedidlo; Spanish: colador, filtro; Swedish: sil, filter, durkslag, sikt; Tagalog: salaan; Turkish: süzgeç; Waray-Waray: saraan