λίθος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=!λί˘θος, ου,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[stone]], Hom., etc.: a [[precious]] [[stone]], Hdt.: [[marble]], Hdt.:—[[proverb]]., λίθον ἕψειν to [[boil]] a [[stone]], i. e. "to [[lose]] one's [[labour]]," Ar.;— of [[stupidity]], λίθοι blocks, stones, Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[stone]] as a [[substance]], opp. to [[wood]], [[flesh]], etc, Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> also fem., Hom., Theocr.;—but the fem. was [[mostly]] used of [[some]] [[special]] [[stone]], as the [[magnet]], Eur., Plat.; of a touchstone, Plat.; ἡ διαφανὴς λ. a [[piece]] of [[crystal]] used for a [[burning]] [[glass]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> at [[Athens]], [[λίθος]] (masc.) was a [[name]] for [[various]] blocks of [[stone]] used for [[rostra]] or tribunes, as,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the Bema of the [[Pnyx]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[another]] in the [[ἀγορά]] used by the κήρυκες, Plut.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> an [[altar]] in the [[ἀγορά]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> a [[piece]] on a draughtboard, Theocr.