λῖτα
σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος καὶ παίγνιον: ἢ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας → all life is a stage and a play: either learn to play laying your gravity aside, or bear with life's pains | the world's a stage, and life's a toy: dress up and play your part; put every serious thought away—or risk a broken heart | Life's a performance. Either join in lightheartedly, or thole the pain. | this life a theatre we well may call, where every actor must perform with art, or laugh it through, and make a farce of all, or learn to bear with grace his tragic part
English (LSJ)
λῑτί, case forms of a noun of which no nom. sg. is found (unless σινδὼν λίς is right in Michel 832.19 (Samos, iv B. C.)),
A linen cloth, ἑανῷ λιτὶ κάλυψαν they covered [the corpse] with a fine linen cloth, Il.18.352, 23.254; λῖτα may be acc. sg. or acc. pl., αὐτὴν δ' ἐς θρόνον εἷσεν ἄγων, ὑπὸ λῖτα πετάσσας, καλὸν δαιδάλεον Od.1.130; ἔβαλλε θρόνοις ἔνι ῥήγεα καλά, πορφύρεα καθύπερθ', ὑπένερθε δὲ λῖθ' ὑπέβαλλεν 10.353: understood as pl. by Ath.2.48c; used for covering a chariot, Il.8.441: in AP6.332 (Hadr.) λίτα [ῐ] poludai/dala is prob. f.l. (Perh. akin to λίνον.)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λῖτα: τά, ἴδε ἐν λέξ. λίς, ἡ, ΙΙ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. *λίς.
English (Autenrieth)
see λί Od. 18.3.
