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|Definition=[ῠ], ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[labyrinth]] or [[maze]], a large building consisting of numerous halls connected by intricate and tortuous passages: in Egypt, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.148</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.37</span>; in Crete, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Del.</span>311</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.61</span>: pl., σπήλαια καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς οἰκοδομητοὶ λαβύρινθοι <span class="bibl">Str.8.6.2</span>; name of a building at Rome, <span class="title">IG</span>14.1093; also at Miletus, <span class="title">Milet.</span>7.56, <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>4.446 (iii/ii B. C., pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> prov. of tortuous questions or arguments, ὥσπερ εἰς λ. ἐμπεσόντες, οἰόμενοι ἤδη ἐπὶ τέλει εἶναι περικάμψαντες πάλιν ὥσπερ ἐν ἀρχῇ… ἀνεφάνημεν ὄντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>291b</span>; λαβυρίνθων σκολιώτερα <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Th.</span>40</span>; λόγοι λαβυρίνθοις ὅμοιοι Luc.Bis Acc.21; λόγων λαβύρινθοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Icar.</span>29</span>; of ant-hills, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>1.3</span>; of the <b class="b2">rete mirabile Galeni</b>, Id.5.608; of Lycophron's poem. <span class="title">AP</span>9.191; as name of a philosopher, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Symp.</span>6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">any wreathed</b> or <b class="b2">coiled up body</b>, <b class="b3">εἰνάλιος λ</b>. the twisted <b class="b2">sea-snail</b>, AP6.224 (Theodorid.); <b class="b3">ἐκ σχοίνων λ</b>. <b class="b2">bow-net</b> of rushes, <span class="bibl">Theoc.21.11</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[labyrinth]], great building with many corridors and turns, in Egypt (Hdt., Str.), Crete (Call., D. S.), Anatolia (inscr. Miletus) etc.; metaph. of complicated thoughts (Pl.);<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[dapu₂ritojo]] \/[[laburinthojo]]\/<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">λαβυρινθώδης</b> <b class="b2">l.-like, complicated</b> (Arist.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Pre-Greek word in <b class="b3">-ινθος</b>, since long (M. Mayer Jb. d. deut. arch. Inst. 7 [1892], 191) connected with <b class="b3">λάβρυς</b>, after Plu. 2,302a Lydian for <b class="b3">πέλεκυς</b>, and as "House of the Double Axe" (as sign of royalty) interpreted; here also the Carian god <b class="b3">Δαβραυνδος</b>. Thus esp. Kretschmer Einleitung 404 and more, e. g. Glotta 28, 244 ff. ; s. also v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 121, Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1,276f. Güntert Labyrinth 1ff. connects <b class="b3">λαύρα</b>, <b class="b2">stony, plastered street v. s.</b> (s. v.; but not to <b class="b3">*λᾶϜας</b> [[stone]] (<b class="b3">λάβρυς</b> prop. *"stone axe"), with <b class="b3">λέπας</b>, Lat. [[lapis]] etc., which was by Kretschmer Glotta 22, 252 f. and Specht KZ 66, 33 f. for phonetic reasons rightly rejected. For connection with <b class="b3">λαύρα</b>, [<b class="b3">λᾶας</b>] also Brandenstein Sprache 2, 72 ff. (against it Messing Lang. 30, 107), Deroy Glotta 35, 173ff. After Kretschmer Sprache 2, 152 ff. <b class="b3">λαβύρινθος</b> in the meaning <b class="b2">terraced building</b> (Apollotemple in Didyma) perhaps a contamination with <b class="b3">λαύρα</b>(?). - New theory by Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 161 ff.: because of Myc. [[dapu₂rito]] = <b class="b3">λαβύρινθος</b> from <b class="b3">*δαβύρινθος</b> as <b class="b2">protoidg.</b> to <b class="b3">θάπτω</b> etc.