ἀραιός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰ], ά, όν,</b> (ἁρ- Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.108</span>, v.l. in <span class="bibl">Il.18.411</span>, al.) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[thin]], [[slender]], <b class="b3">κνῆμαι, χείρ, γλῶσσαι</b>, Il.l.c., <span class="bibl">5.425</span>, <span class="bibl">16.161</span>; γαστήρ <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span> 133</span>; [[narrow]], εἴσοδος <span class="bibl">Od.10.90</span>; of ships, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>809</span>; <b class="b3">φάλαγγες ἀ</b>., opp. [[βαθύτεραι]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Lac.</span>11.6</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Crass.</span>23</span>; <b class="b3">ἀραιᾷ τροφῇ χρῆσθαι</b> [[meagre]], of diet, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1335b13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> later, of the substance of bodies, [[of loose texture]], opp. [[πυκνός]], Anaximen.I, <span class="bibl">Meliss.7</span>, Anaxag. 12,15, cf. <span class="bibl">Emp.104</span> (Sup.), <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>2.4.7</span>, etc.; opp. [[πίων]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Pr.</span>880a38</span>; freq. in Hp., as <span class="bibl"><span class="title">VM</span>22</span>; δέρμα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aph.</span>5.71</span>; ὀστέον <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Art.</span>33</span>; εἴρια <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mul.</span>1.1</span>; ὁμίχλη . . νέφους ἀραιοτέρα <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>394a21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mete.</span> 364b25</span> (Comp.); σπόγγοι <span class="bibl">D.S.3.14</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">φλύκταιναι ἀ</b>. [[empty]] blisters, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>240</span> (v. Sch.ad loc.), cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.12.24</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in Tactics, [[in open order]], opp.<b class="b3">πυκνός, τὸ ἀραιότατον [διάστημα</b>] Ascl.<span class="title">Tact.</span>4.1, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[intermittent]], πνεῦμα <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>1.26</span>.ά<b class="b3">, β; ἆσθμα, βήξ</b>, <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">SD</span>1.11</span>, etc. Adv. -ῶς <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Puer.</span>24</span>; of the pulse, Gal.9.444,al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[scanty]], [[few and far between]], τρίχες <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Col.</span>797b27</span>; [[ἀκτῖνες]] ib.<span class="bibl">791a27</span>; φωναί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aud.</span>803b28</span>; ὀδόντες <span class="bibl">Poll.2.94</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> [[ἀραιά]] (sc. [[γαστήρ]]), ἡ, [[flank]], [[belly]], <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Onom.</span>171</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> of the voice, [[thin]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.13.59</span>. (Homeric metre proves [[ϝαραιός]].) </span>