Ἄδωνις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰ], ιδος</b> (also ιος <span class="bibl">Pherecr.198</span>), ὁ, <span class="title">Adonis</span>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν Sapph.63; Ἀδώνι' ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄ. κλάομεν <span class="bibl">Pherecr.170</span>; [[ὥδωνις]], i.e. <b class="b3">ὁ Ἄ</b>., <span class="bibl">Theoc.3.47</span>:—hence, generally, [[favourite]], [[darling]], δεῖ Ἀδώνιδας αὐτοὺς ἀκούειν <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span>35</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Alciphr.1.39</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>5.112 (Marc.Arg.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι</b> cuttings planted in pots [[for the Adonia]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>276b</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.7.3</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.15.113</span>: prov., of <b class="b2">any short-lived pleasure</b>, Sch.Pl.l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">αὐλὴ Ἀδώνιδος</b>, at Rome, garden on the Palatine, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>7.32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> kind of [[flying-fish]], = [[ἐξώκοιτος]], <span class="bibl">Clearch.73</span>, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span> 1.157</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[Adonis-flower]], [[Anemone fulgens]], Aus.<span class="title">Idyll.</span>6.11.</span>