ῥόα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, Ion. and Ep. ῥοιή; later ῥοιά, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Col.</span>796a21</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>923b25</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.6.3</span>, al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.121.57</span> (iii B.C.), Gal.6.605:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pomegranate-tree, Punica Granatum</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.7.115</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).287 <span class="title">A</span> 147 (ῥοαν), 155 (ῥοην) (Delos, iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> the fruit, <b class="b2">pomegranate</b>, h.Cer.372, 412, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>363</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>1268</span>, <span class="bibl">Hermipp.36</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>845b</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>7.13.4</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).161 <span class="title">B</span> 44 (Delos, iii B.C.), Dsc.1.110. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">knob shaped like a pomegranate</b>, <b class="b3">ῥοιαὶ χρύσεαι, ἀργύρεαι</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.41</span>; <b class="b2">tassel</b> of like shape,= <b class="b3">ῥοΐσκος</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ki.</span>7.18</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.7.4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BJ</span>5.5.7</span>.—Cf. <b class="b3">σίδη</b>. [Both <b class="b3">ῥοά</b> and <b class="b3">ῥοιά</b> are oxyt. acc. to Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.301</span>, <span class="bibl">2.271</span>.]</span>