χειμών: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[χειμών]], ῶνος, ὁ, [v. [[χιών]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[winter]], opp. to [[θέρος]], il., [[attic]]; χειμῶνος in [[winter]]-[[time]], Xen.; τοῦ χ. in the [[course]] of the [[winter]], Thuc.; χειμῶνα [[during]] [[winter]], Soph.; τὸν χ. [[during]] the [[winter]], Hdt., Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[wintry]] [[quarter]] of the heavens, the [[north]], [[Βορέας]] καὶ χ. Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[wintry]] [[weather]], a [[winter]]-[[storm]], and [[generally]] a [[storm]], Hom., Hdt., [[attic]]; χ. κατερράγη Hdt.; ἐπέπεσέ σφι χ. [[μέγας]] Hdt.; [[ὦρσε]] θεὸς χειμῶνα Aesch.; χ. [[νοτερός]] a [[storm]] of [[rain]], Thuc.:— in pl., ὑπὸ τῶν χ. by [[means]] of the [[winter]]-storms, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph., [[θεόσσυτος]] χ. a [[storm]] of [[calamity]] sent by the gods, Aesch.; δορὸς ἐν χειμῶνι in the [[storm]] of [[battle]], Soph.; θολερῷ χ. νοσήσας, of the [[madness]] of [[Ajax]], Soph.