ἅμμα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ατος, τό, (ἅπτω) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[anything tied]] or <b class="b2">made to tie:</b> hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[knot]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Fist.</span>4</span>; ἅ. λύειν, ἀπάπτειν <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.98</span>; ἅ. ποιεῖσθαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span> 5.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[noose]], [[halter]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>781</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[cord]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ba.</span>696</span>, cf. Hp.<span class="title">Steril.</span>244, etc.; <b class="b3">ἅ. παρθενίας</b> maiden [[girdle]], AP7.182 (Mel.), cf. <span class="bibl">164</span> (Antip.), imitated in <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>248.8 (Philomelium). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[link]] of chain, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>2.32d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> in pl., [[clinches]] in wrestling, Gal. 6.143, cf. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Fab.</span>23</span>; of the [[wrestler's arms]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Alc.</span>2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> [[measure of length]] (like our [[chain]]), = <span class="bibl">40</span> [[πήχεις]], Hero ''*Geom''.23.14, al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>669</span> (iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[that which kindles]], <span class="bibl">Ph.2.504</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[ἅπτω]]<br />[[anything]] tied or made to tie, and so,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[knot]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[noose]], [[halter]], Eur.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[band]], Eur.; ἅ. [[παρθενίας]] the [[maiden]] [[girdle]], Anth.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> in pl. the [[wrestler]]'s [[arms]] or hug, Plut.