δέμας: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, (δέμω) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bodily frame]], usu. of man, Hom. (v. infr.); rarely of other animals, <span class="bibl">Od.10.240</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.20</span>; prop. [[the living body]], but also of a corpse, νεκρὸν δ. <span class="bibl">Batr.106</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>205</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>40</span>, <span class="bibl">1066</span>, Sch. Ven.<span class="bibl">Il.1.115</span>.—Hom. uses it only in acc. sg., usu. abs., <b class="b3">μικρὸς δ</b>. small [[in stature]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.801</span>; ἄριστος εἶδός τε δ. τε <span class="bibl">Od.8.116</span>; δέμας ἐϊκυῖα θεῇσιν <span class="bibl">Il.8.305</span>; δέμας ἀθανάτοισιν ὁμοῖος <span class="bibl">Od.8.14</span>; οὐ… ἐστι χερείων οὐ δέμας οὐδὲ φυήν <span class="bibl">Il.1.115</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.5.212</span>; δέμας καὶ εἶδος ἀγητός <span class="bibl">Il.24.376</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.18.251</span>; χαρίεσσα δέμας <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>260</span>; Κλύμενον… ἀμώμητον δ. <span class="bibl">B.5.147</span>: nom. in later poets, as <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>110</span>, <span class="bibl">501</span>, etc.: dat. δέμαϊ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Pae.</span>6.80</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in Lyr. and Trag. as a periphrasis, <b class="b3">Ἀστερίας δ</b>., the island of Delos, ib.<span class="bibl">5.42</span>; κτανεῖν μητρῷον δ. <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Eu.</span>84</span>; οἰκετῶν δ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>908</span>; Ἡράκλειον δ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1037</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">οἰνάνθης δ</b>., i.e. the vine-[[shoot]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>255.4</span>; <b class="b3">ἀστερωπὸν οὐρανοῦ δ</b>. v.l. in <span class="bibl">Critias 25.33</span> D.; <b class="b3">Δάματρος ἀκτᾶς… δ</b>., i.e. bread, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>138</span>: in later Ep., ὕλης δ. <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">L.</span>238</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Com., = [[πόσθη]], <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.173.10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as Adv., <b class="b3">δέμας πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο</b> [[in form]] or [[fashion like]] burning fire, <span class="bibl">Il.11.596</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">17.366</span>.</span>