ἔθειρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[hair]], poet. Noun, Hom. only in Il., and always in pl., either of [[a horse's mane]], <span class="bibl">8.42</span>; or of the [[horsehair crest]] on helmets, <span class="bibl">16.795</span>, <span class="bibl">19.382</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> later sg., [[hair of the head]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>5(4).9</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span> 1062</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1124</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Theoc.5.91</span>, etc.: also pl., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ven.</span>228</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>175</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>632</span>, <span class="bibl">Euph.23</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>3.1376, etc.; of a lion's [[mane]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.25.244</span>; porcupine's [[quills]], <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>3.395</span>; a bird's [[feathers]], ib. <span class="bibl">123</span>; <b class="b3">κρόκου θυόεσσαν ἔθειραν</b>, of the [[filiform stigmas]] of the saffron, <span class="bibl">Mosch.2.68</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[ἔθειρα]], ἡ,<br />[[hair]], used by Hom. in pl., [[either]] of a [[horse]]'s [[mane]], or of the horsehair [[crest]] on helmets:—[[later]] in sg. and pl. of the [[hair]] of the [[head]], Aesch., Eur., etc.; of a [[lion]]'s [[mane]], Theocr.