ἠλίβατος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], Dor. ἀλ-, ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[high]], [[steep]], always in Hom. as [[epithet]] of [[πέτρη]] or [[πέτραι]], <span class="bibl">Il.15.273</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>675</span>, <span class="bibl">786</span>, <span class="bibl">Thgn.176</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">O.</span>6.64</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>352</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>80</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Theoc.26.10</span>, etc.; [[ὄρος]], [[ἄκρη]], [[ἐρίπναι]], <span class="bibl">A.R.2.169</span>, <span class="bibl">361</span>, <span class="bibl">1248</span>; of the Olympian throne of Zeus, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1732</span>; of trees, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ven.</span>267</span> (so prob. in <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>422</span>).—Also in X. and later Prose, <b class="b3">πέτραι ἠ</b>. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>1.4.4</span>; τόποι <span class="bibl">Plb.4.41.9</span>; πέτρος <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.50</span>; δένδρα <span class="bibl">Agatharch.97</span>; πῦρ <span class="bibl">Hanno <span class="title">Peripl.</span>16</span>; [[σταυρός]] Epigr. ap. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Flam.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[deep]], [[abysmal]], <b class="b3">ἄντρῳ ἐν ἠ</b>. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span> 483</span>; <b class="b3">Τάρταρος ἠ</b>. Stes.<span class="bibl">83</span>; ἠ. ὑπὸ κευθμῶσι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>732</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">πελάγεσσιν ἐν ἠ</b>. <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>3.171</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">κακὸν ἠ</b>. <span class="bibl">Damox.2.22</span>; εὐηθεια <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>1.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> in later Poets (perh. from a misunderstanding of [Κύκλωψ] ἠ. πέτρην ἐπέθηκε θύρῃσιν <span class="bibl">Od.9.243</span>), [[huge]], [[enormous]], μέλεα <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>5.66</span>; σχεδίη <span class="bibl">Q.S.11.312</span>; so in Prose, [[κῦμα]], [[σκιαί]], Plu.2.163c,935f. (Etym. dub., cf. <b class="b3">ἄλιψ· πέτρα</b>, Hsch.) </span>