λίθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ου, o( (v. infr. ''ΙΙ''), <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[stone]], Hom., etc.; esp. of the [[stones]] thrown by [[warrior]]s, τρηχὺς λ., λ. ὀκριόεις, <span class="bibl">Il.5.308</span>, <span class="bibl">8.327</span>; also, [[stonequoit]], <span class="bibl">Od.8.190</span>; ἑλέσθαι… ἐκ γαίας λίθον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>199.4</span>; of [[building]]-[[stone]]s, λίθοι βασιλικοί <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.423.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>499.20</span> (both iii B.C.): prov., [[ἐν παντὶ γάρ τοι σκορπίος φρουρεῖ λίθῳ]] = for a [[scorpion]] keeps watch in every [[stone]], [[lapide sub omni latet insidians nepa]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>37</span>; [[λίθον ἕψειν]] 'to lose one's labour', <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>280</span>; also of stupid persons, 'blockheads', λίθοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1202</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thgn.568</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>292d</span>, Gal.9.656; λ. τις, οὐ δούλη <span class="bibl">Herod.6.4</span>; προσηγορεύθη διὰ τὸ μὴ [[φρονεῖν]] λ., of [[Niobe]], <span class="bibl">Philem.101</span>; ὥσπερ λίθον ζῆν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>494a</span> sq.; λίθῳ λαλεῖς prov. of ἀναίσθητοι, <span class="bibl">Macar.5.61</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[stone]] as a substance, opp. wood, flesh, etc., ἐπεὶ οὔ σφι λ. χρὼς οὐδὲ σίδηρος <span class="bibl">Il.4.510</span>; [[λαοὺς δὲ λίθους ποίησε]] turned into [[stone]], [[petrified]], <span class="bibl">24.611</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>198c</span>; so [νῆα] θεῖναι λ. <span class="bibl">Od.13.156</span>; as an emblem of hard-heartedness, σοὶ δ' αἰεὶ κραδίη στερεωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο <span class="bibl">23.103</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.3.18</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[λίθος]], ἡ</b>, twice in Hom., <span class="bibl">Il.12.287</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.19.494</span>, just like masc., also in <span class="bibl">Theoc.7.26</span>, <span class="bibl">Bion <span class="title">Fr.</span>1.2</span>: later mostly of [[some special stone]], as the magnet is called [[Μαγνῆτις]] λ. by <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>567</span> (but ἡ λίθος simply in <span class="bibl">Democr.11k</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span> 267a2</span>, cf. v.l. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">de An.</span>405a20</span>); also [[Λυδία λ]]. by <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>800</span> (but in B.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 10 J. [[Λυδία]] λ. = [[touchstone]]); [[Ἡρακλεία λ]]. by <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>533d</span>, <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 293</span>; so of a [[touchstone]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>486d</span>; ἡ διαφανὴς λ. a piece of [[crystal]] used for a burning-glass, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>767</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Alex.</span>21</span>; χυτὴ λ. was perh. a kind of [[glass]], and so an older name for [[ὕαλος]], <span class="bibl">Epin.1.8</span> (the same thing as the ἀρτήματα λίθινα χυτά in <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.69</span>; cf. τὴν ὕαλον… ὅσα τε λίθων χυτὰ εἴδη καλεῖται <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>61c</span>); λ. = [[precious stone]] is fem. in <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span>99</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1421.92, 1460.21, but masc. in <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.44</span>, etc.; in the sense of [[marble]] mostly masc., λευκὸς λ. <span class="bibl">Id.4.87</span> (simply λίθος <span class="bibl">1.164</span>), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>330</span> (λευκοὶ λ. is opp. πέτρινοι λ. <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>4.446.8 (Didyma)); [[Πάριος]] λ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>4.81</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.57</span>; [[Ταινάριος]] λ. <span class="bibl">Str.8.5.7</span>; λ. [[Θάσιος]], [[Αἰγύπτιος]], etc., <span class="bibl">Paus.1.18.6</span>, etc.; κογχίτης <span class="bibl">Id.1.44.6</span>; κογχυλιάτης <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>3.4.10</span>; but Παρία λ. <span class="bibl">Theoc.6.38</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Am.</span>13</span>; cf. [[λυχνίας]], -ίτης; πώρινος λ</b>. [[tufa]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.62</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> collectively, πέφυκε λίθος… ἄφθονος, [[ἐξ οὗ]]… <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Vect.</span>1.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[gravestone]] (fem.), <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>8.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> at Athens, [[λίθος]], ὁ</b>, was a name for various [[block]]s of stone used for rostra or [[platform]]s, as, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> the [[βῆμα]] (q.v.) of the Pnyx, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>683</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pax</span> 680</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ec.</span>87</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> another in the [[ἀγορά]] used by the [[κήρυκες]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span>8</span>; prob. the same as ὁ πρατὴρ λ., on which the auctioneer stood when selling slaves, etc., <span class="bibl">Poll.3.78</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">126</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> an [[altar]] in the [[ἀγορά]], at which the Thesmothetae, arbitrators, and witnesses took their oaths, <span class="bibl">Philoch.65</span>, <span class="bibl">D.54.26</span> (restored from Harp. s.v. [[λίθος]]), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>7.1</span>, <span class="bibl">55.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span>25</span>; cf. [[λιθωμότης]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> two [[stones]] on which litigants stood in the Areopagus, <span class="bibl">Paus.1.28.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> [[piece on a draughtboard]], <span class="bibl">Alc.82</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc. 6.18</span>, cf. γραμμή <span class="bibl">111.1</span>: hence pron., [[πάντα λίθον κινεῖν]] <span class="bibl">Zen.5.63</span> (who explains it differently). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> Medic., [[stone]] in the [[bladder]], [[calculus]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>519b19</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Morb.</span>4.55</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> [[Δία λίθον ὀμνύναι]], = Lat. [[Jovem lapidem jurare]], <span class="bibl">Plb.3.25.6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VIII</span> [[λίθοι χαλάζης]] = [[hailstones]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jo.</span>10.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IX</span> λ. ὁ οὐ λ. the [[philosopher]]s' [[stone]], Zos. Alch.<span class="bibl">p.122</span> B.</span>