ὀστέον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Att. contr. [[ὀστοῦν]], poet. [[ὀστεῦν]] <span class="title">AP</span>7.480 (Leon.); Aeol. perh. [[ὄστιον]] Alc.<span class="title">Oxy.</span>2081 (<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> d)Fr.5: pl. [[ὀστέα]], Att. contr. [[ὀστᾶ]], late Ep. <b class="b3">ὀστά</b> [ᾰ] <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>1.268</span>, Epigr.in <span class="bibl">D.L.1.63</span>, <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>517.7 (Edessa); Dor. ὀστία <span class="bibl">Theoc.2.61</span>; but Trag. and Com. use gen. pl. [[ὀστέων]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>367</span> (codd. Poll.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>769</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>1226</span>, and it is so written in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1177</span> where metre requires [[ὀστῶν]]: and the uncontr. forms generally occur in later Prose, as in Arist. (v. infr.); nom. ὀστέον <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLit.Lond.</span>167.17</span>(ii/iii A. D.); dat. pl. ὀστέοις <span class="bibl">Diog.Oen.39</span>; Ep. gen. pl. [[ὀστεόφιν]] (v. infr.):—[[bone]], freq. in Hom. (<span class="bibl">Il.4.460</span>, al.) and Hp. (<span class="bibl"><span class="title">VC</span>1</span>, al.); Hes. only in plural, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>540</span>, al.; <b class="b3">λεύκ' ὀστέα</b> the [[bleach]]ed [[bone]]s of the [[dead]], <span class="bibl">Od.1.161</span>, etc.; σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα <span class="bibl">9.293</span>; <b class="b3">πολὺς δ' ἀμφ' ὀστεόφιν θίς</b> a huge heap [[of bones]] around, <span class="bibl">12.45</span>; ῥινὸν ἀπ' ὀστεόφιν ἐρύσαι <span class="bibl">14.134</span>; γυμνοῦσι τὰ ὀστέα τῶν κρεῶν <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.61</span>; <b class="b3">ὀστέων στέγαστρον</b>, of the skin, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>367</span>; ἀρχὴ τῶν ὀστῶν ἡ καλουμένη ῥάχις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>54b11</span>; especially of the cranium, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VC</span>2</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Il. 12.185</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b3">γῆς ὀστέοισιν ἐγχριμφθεὶς πόδα</b>, i.e. [[rock]]s, <span class="bibl">Choeril.Trag.2</span> ([[ὀστοῖσιν]] Nauck). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[stone]] of [[fruit]], ὀστῶν περσεΐνων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>176.168</span> (iii B. C.), cf. Dsc.<span class="title">Eup.</span>1.66, <span class="title">Gp.</span>10.13.3, al., Sch.<span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>99</span>. [Accent [[ὀστέον]] Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.943</span>, but ὄστεον Anon. ap. Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.24.793</span>.] (Cf. Skt. <b class="b2">´sthi</b>, gen. <b class="b2">asthn´s</b> 'bone', etc.)</span>