σπάδιξ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾱ], ῑκος, ἡ,</b> (σπάω) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bough]] or [[branch torn off]], esp. [[palmbranch]] or [[frond]],= [[βάϊς]] (cf. σπάθη 7), σ. φοίνικος <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.7</span>: abs., Plu.2.724a: pl. in Lat. [[spadica]] (Amm.Marc.24.3.12); applied to other plants, e.g. ῥυτῆς <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>528</span>; <b class="b3">ποΐσω ἀργυρέ[α]ν σ</b>. <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span> 4.61 (Centuripae, i (?) A.D., but perh. in signf.11). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> as Adj., [[palm-coloured]], i.e. [[bay]], only Lat. [[spadix]], Verg.<span class="title">G.</span>3.82, Gell.2.26.9. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[a stringed instrument like the lyre]], with high notes, <span class="bibl">Nicom. <span class="title">Harm.</span>4</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.4.59</span>; condemned by Quintilian as effeminate, <span class="title">Inst.</span>1.10.31. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[rind stripped from the root of the]] <b class="b3">πρῖνος, Λέξεις Ἡροδότου</b> in Stein <span class="title">Herodotus</span> ii p.469 (Berol. 1871), cf. Hsch. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σπᾶ]].</span>