ὁλκή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, ([[ἕλκω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[drawing]], [[trailing]], [[dragging]], e. g. of the hair, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>884</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ τῆς γνάψεως ὁ</b>. the [[drawing]] of the carding instrument in fulling cloth, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>282e</span>; <b class="b3">ἀπὸ μιᾶς ὁ</b>. by one [[haul]] or [[pull]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mech.</span>853b1</span>; ἡ ὁ. τοῦ ἀρότρου <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>3.15</span> : metaph., <b class="b3">τοῖς δεινοῖς περὶ λόγων ὁλκήν</b> skilled in [[drawing]] words [[to a false meaning]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>57d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[inhalation]] (of vapour), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.55</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ. πνεύματος</b> [[drawing in]] of the breath, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Spir.</span>482a15</span>; <b class="b3">τοῦ αἵματος</b> [[suction]] of blood by the cupping-bowl, Anon. <span class="title">in Rh.</span> 170.8. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[ray]], [[beam]], prob. cj. for [[ὁλκὸν]] in <span class="title">Lyr.Alex.Adesp.</span>35.19. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a [[drawing on]] or [[towards]] a thing, παιδεία ἔσθ' ἡ παίδων ὁ. καὶ ἀγωγὴ πρὸς τὸν λόγον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>659d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[attraction]], [[force of attraction]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ti.</span>80c</span>; of a magnet, <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Fr.</span>293</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl">Ph.1.34</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ ὁ. τῆς ὁμοιότητος</b> the [[attractive force]] of similarity, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>435c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[tendency]], διανοίας πρὸς τὸ ὄν <span class="bibl">Ph.1.332</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[drawing down]] of the scale, [[weight]], ὁ. ταλάντου χρυσίου <span class="bibl">Men.383</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mir.</span>833b10</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>9.16.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.30.25.16</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Es.</span>8.62(64)</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.659.27, 11(2).128.25 (Delos, iii B. C.), etc. ; <b class="b3">ὁλκὴν ἄγειν</b> weigh so much, <span class="title">Michel</span>836.30(Milet.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> the [[drachma]], as a weight, Dsc.1.30, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span> 1.81</span>, Hero ''*Geom''.23.55, Gal.19.752, Asclep. ap. eund.<span class="bibl">13.160</span>, <span class="bibl">Ruf. <span class="title">Ren.Ves.</span>1.11</span>.</span>