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μύδρος

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Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c
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Transliteration A: mýdros Transliteration B: mydros Transliteration C: mydros Beta Code: mu/dros

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A anvil of stone or metal, A.Fr.307 (reading μύδρος) ; τύπτεσθαι μύδρος, i. e. as hard as an anvil, Antiph.195.3; also the redhot mass of iron on the anvil, Call.Dian.49, Nic.Al.50; μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν hold red-hot iron in the hands, as an ordeal, S.Ant.264; μύδρον σιδήρεον κατεπόντωσαν Hdt.1.165, cf. Arist.Ath.23.5, IG12.682 (prob.), Call.Fr.209; Πακτώλιος μ. lump [of gold] from Pactolus, Lyc.272; μ. διάπυρος a red-hot mass of stone or metal, of the sun, Anaxag. ap. D.L.2.8, cf. 15, Archel. in Placit.2.13.6, Ph.1.623; ἀστέρος μ. Critias 25.35 D.; μ. διάπυροι the stones thrown out by Aetna, Arist.Mu.395b23, cf. Str.6.2.8; also, of red-hot stones or pieces of metal, thrown into a liquid to vaporize it, Hp.Mul.2.134: generally, a stone, Orph.A.896; ὁ ἀὴρ διάπυρος καὶ μ. γενόμενος dub. in Hp. Flat.8; μύδρος κίων παχὺς ἄξυστος (sine interpr.) Gloss. (Not in Hom. exc. in a spurious line read by some after Il.15.21.) (Cf. σμύδρος.)

German (Pape)

[Seite 213] ὁ, die glühende Eisenniasse; ἐπιχαλκεύειν μύδρους, Aesch. frg. 421; ἦμεν δ' ἑτοῖμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν, Soph. Ant. 264, was als eine Art Gottesurtheil angesehen wurde; σιδήρεος, Her. 1, 165; Πακτώλιος μύδρος, ein gediegener Goldklumpen vom Paktolus, Lycophr. 272; Anaxagoras nannte die Sonne einen μύδρος διάπυρος, bei D. L. 2, 8, wofür Xen. Mem. 4, 7, 7 λίθος διάπυρος steht; vgl. Luc. Icar. 7; Arist. de mund. 4, 25 μύδροι διάπυροι, die glühenden Steinmassen, welche der Aetna auswirft; so auch Strab. VI, 240 u. Sp. Hesych. erkl. neben σίδηρος πεπυρωμένος auch ἀργὸς σίδηρος und κραταιὸς λίθος. – Das Wort findet sich zuerst in dem einen der zwei Verse, die nach Eust. von Mehreren hinter Il. 15, 30 eingeschoben wurden, die aber Wolf nicht aufgenommen hat, s. Heyne VII p. 12.