ὀμίχλη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ὁμ- <span class="bibl">Eust.117.33</span> and v. infr. ; a form ὄμιχλ-λα is condemned by <span class="bibl">Hdn. <span class="title">Philet.</span>p.445</span> P.), ἡ, [[mist]], [[fog]] (not so thick as [[νέφος]] or [[νεφέλη]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Mete.</span>346b33</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mu.</span>394a19</span>), Hom. only in Il. ; εὖτ' ὄρεος κορυφῇσι Νότος κατέχευεν ὀμίχλην <span class="bibl">3.10</span>; so Thetis rises from the sea, ἠΰτ' ὀμίχλη <span class="bibl">1.359</span>; ὁ. καὶ δρόσος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>330</span>; κονίης ὀμίχλην <span class="bibl">Il.13.336</span>; ὀμίχλη ἐγένετο <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.2.7</span>, etc. : metaph., ὄσσοις ὁμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρης δακρύων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>145</span>(lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">cloud-like darkness, gloom</b>, κατὰ νυκτὸς ὀ. <span class="title">AP</span>5.228 (Maced.), cf. <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">A.</span>521</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[the steam of cookery]], <span class="bibl">Mnesim.4.64</span>. (Cf. Lith. <b class="b2">miglà</b> 'mist.)</span>