ὁλκός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[drawing to oneself]], [[attractive]], θερμόν τε καὶ ὁ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>931a25</span> ; μάθημα ψυχῆς ὁλκὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ γιγνομένου ἐπὶ τὸ ὄν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>521d</span> ; <b class="b3">ὁλκὸν . . ψυχῆς πρὸς ἀλήθειαν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">527b</span> ; ὁλκοτέρας τὰς ῥίζας ποιεῖν <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">CP</span>3.17.3</span> ([[ἑλκοτέρας]] cod. A: [[ἑλκτικωτέρας]] Wimmer). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[trailing]], ὁλκὰ βαίνων <span class="bibl">Hld.10.30</span>. Adv. Comp. -ότερον [[slowly]], <span class="bibl">Id.3.5</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[possible]], <b class="b3">ὁλκά· δυνατά</b>, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> Pass., [[liable to be attracted]], [[having a propensity]], ὁ. διάνοιαι παρθένων πρὸς ἀρετήν <span class="bibl">Ph.2.229</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">ὁλκ-ός</span>, ὁ, (ἕλκω) : <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> [[machine for hauling]] ships <b class="b2">on land, hauling-engine</b>, prob. a fixed [[capstan]], [[windlass]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.154</span>, <span class="bibl">159</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>146</span>,<span class="bibl">673</span> ; but also of [[movable engines]] of like kind, for hauling ships across the Isthmus of Corinth, <span class="bibl">Th.3.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[strap]], [[rein]] (cf. [[ῥυτήρ]]), τμητοῖς ὁλκοῖς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>863</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[furrow]], [[track]], [[trace]], αἵματι δ' ὁλκοὶ . . πλήθοντο <span class="bibl">A.R.3.1391</span> ; <b class="b3">σμίλης ὁλκός</b> [[the traces]] of a chisel in the wood, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span> 779</span>(lyr.) ; <b class="b3">ὁ. τοῦ ξύλου</b> [[the furrow made by]] the wood, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>9.18</span> ; [[path]], [[track]], or [[orbit]] of a star or meteor, <span class="bibl">A.R.3.141</span>, <span class="bibl">4.296</span>, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span> 24.90</span> ; [[ἁμάξης]] ib.<span class="bibl">1.96</span> ; [[ditch]] or [[channel]], <span class="bibl">A.R.1.375</span> ; <b class="b3">οἴδματος ὁλκοί</b> the waves, ib.<span class="bibl">1167</span> ; ὁλκοὶ καλλιρόων ὑδάτων <span class="title">Milet.</span>1(9).343 ; [[body-coils]] of a serpent, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>266</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herm.</span>79</span> ; but, [[coiling movement]] of a serpent, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>162</span>, al. ; cf. ὁ. γλώσσης <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Al.</span>79</span>, <span class="bibl">281</span> ; of hair, [[coil]], <b class="b3">ὁλκὸς ἐθείρης, πλοκάμων . . ὁλκοί</b>, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>3.413</span>, <span class="bibl">32.168</span> : generally, of anything drawn, <b class="b3">αἵματος ὁλκῷ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">4.329</span>, al. ; [[draught]] of wine, <span class="bibl">Antiph. 237.4</span>(pl.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in periphrases, <b class="b3">δάφνης ὁλκοί</b> [[drawings]], i. e. laurelboughs (or brooms made of them) [[drawn along]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 145</span> (lyr.) ; <b class="b3">τερπνὸς ἀκούεται ὁ. ἁμάξης</b> a chariot [[drawn]], <span class="bibl">D.P.191</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[aqueduct]], Cod.Just.1.4.26 ; ὁ. ὑδάτων <span class="bibl">Lyd.<span class="title">Mens.</span>3.23</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> a kind of [[spider]], Dsc.2.63. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[grass]], [[mouse-barley]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span> 27.90</span>.</span>