πόρτις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ῐος, ἡ, poet. word (in later Prose, acc. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> πόρτιας <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib. 23.3</span>), [[calf]], [[young heifer]] (younger than [[δαμάλη]], Sch.<span class="bibl">Theoc.1.75</span>), <span class="bibl">Il.5.162</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>174</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>530</span> (lyr.), etc.; δαμάλαι καὶ πόρτιες <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.75</span>; ἀεργηλὴν ἔτι π. <span class="bibl">A.R.4.1186</span>; [[young cow]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.121</span>, <span class="bibl">Mosch.3.82</span>: rarely masc., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>41</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">314</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[young maiden]], Lyc.102; cf. [[πόρις]]. (Cf. Skt. [[pṛthukas]] 'young of an animal', Arm. [[orth]] 'calf'.)</span>

|elnltext=πόρτις -ιος, ἡ en πόρταξ -ακος, ἡ [~ πόρις] jong rund, kalf; ook m., overdr.: Δῖον πόρτιν het kalf van Zeus (nl. Epaphus, zoon van Zeus en Io) Aeschl. Suppl. 41.