λαιμός
ὦ θάνατε παιάν, μή μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς μολεῖν· μόνος γὰρ εἶ σὺ τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰατρός, ἄλγος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἅπτεται νεκροῦ. → O death, the healer, reject me not, but come! For thou alone art the mediciner of ills incurable, and no pain layeth hold on the dead.
English (LSJ)
(A), ὁ,
A throat, gullet, in Hom. always of men, βάλε δουρὶ λαιμὸν ὑπ' ἀνθερεῶνα Il.13.388; τὸν δ' Ὀδυσεὺς κατὰ λαιμὸν . . βάλεν ἰῷ Od.22.15; οὔ πως ἂν ἔμοιγε φίλον κατὰ λαιμὸν ἰείη οὐ πόσις οὐδὲ βρῶσις Il.19.209; λ. ἀπαμήσειε 18.34: metaph., neck of a bottle, AP 9.232 (Phil.): also in pl., E.Ph.1092; so of animals, Id.Supp.1201, Ar.Av.1560.—Rare in early Prose, as Hp.Cord.2, but commoner later, as Luc.Nigr.16, Gal.15.656, Porph.Marc.33, Jul.Or.6.193b.
λαιμός (B), ή, όν,
A = λαμυρός 11, Heraclit.Incred.2 (cj.), Hsch.: neut. pl. as Adv., λαιμὰ βακχεύειν impudently, Men.106.
German (Pape)
[Seite 7] όν, = λαμυρός, Men., s. Mein. p. 41. 455. ὁ (λαω, vgl. λάμος), Kehle, Schlund, Gurgel, βάλε δουρὶ λαιμὸν ὑπ' ἀνθερεῶνα, Il. 13, 387, λαιμὸν ἀποτέμνειν, 18, 34, οὔπως ἂν ἔμοιγε φίλον κατὰ λαιμὸν ἰείη οὐ πόσις οὐδὲ βρῶσις, 19, 209; λαιμοὺς τεμών, Ar. Av. 1560; u. im plur., λαιμῶν ἐξάψει βρόχον, Eur. Ion 106; auch von Thieren, λαιμοὺς τρεῖς τριῶν μήλων τεμών, Suppl. 1201, wie Ap. Rh. 3, 1208; selbst von Gefäßen, λ. κύτους Philp. 58 (IX, 232). – Einzeln in sp. Prosa, wie Luc. hist. conscrib. 25 Nigr. 16.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
gorge, gosier.
Étymologie: R. Λα, engloutir, absorber, dévorer.
