βαλβίς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ῖδος, ἡ, prop. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">rope drawn across the race-course at the starting and finishing-point:</b> mostly in pl., [[posts to which this rope was attached]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1159</span>: so in sg., [[turning-post]], νῆσος β. ξεστῇ εἴκασται <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>5.5</span>: also, [[platform from which the quoit was thrown]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Im.</span>1.24</span>: hence, <b class="b2">any starting-point</b>, <span class="bibl">Antipho Soph.69</span>; βαλβίδων ἄπο <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>867</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>548</span>: metaph., ἕρπε πρὸς βαλβῖδα λυπηρὰν βίου <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>1245</span>; ἐκ β. εἰς τέρμα <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>13.177d</span>; β. λόγου βέβληται <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VS</span>2.20.3</span>; βιβλίου <span class="title">AP</span>4.3b.75 (Agath.); but, [[edge]], ib.<span class="bibl">39</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> since <b class="b2">the starting-point</b> was also [[the goal]], [[βαλβῖδες]] was used for [[any point to be gained]], as [[the battlements]] (by one scaling a wall), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>131</span> (lyr.), cf. Lyc.287, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>1.513</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[κοιλότης παραμήκης]], Gal.19.87; v. foreg.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[deriv. uncertain]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[properly]], the [[rope]] [[drawn]] [[across]] the [[race]]-[[course]]: [[mostly]] in pl., Lat. carceres, the posts marking the [[line]] [[whence]] the racers started, and to [[which]] they returned, Ar.:—then, any starting [[point]], Eur., Ar.; metaph., πρὸς βαλβῖδα βίου Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> also any [[point]] to be gained, as the [[battlements]] (by one [[scaling]] a [[wall]]), Soph.