σιδηρίτης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῑτ], ου, ὁ</b>, fem. σῐδηρ-ῖτις, ιδος: Dor. σῐδᾱρίτας, α, ὁ:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[of iron]], <b class="b3">σ. πόλεμος</b> [[iron]] war, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>5.19</span>; <b class="b3">σ. τέχνη</b> the <b class="b2">smith's</b> art, <span class="bibl">Eup.263</span>; <b class="b3">σ. πέτρα</b> rock [[with iron ore]] in it, <span class="bibl">D.S.5.13</span>; σ. γῆ <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>326</span> ed. Berol., <span class="bibl">Poll.3.87</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[σιδηρῖτις]], with or without [[λίθος]], [[loadstone]], <span class="bibl">Phld. <span class="title">Sign.</span>9</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.15.1.38</span>, Plu.2.1005c, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[a precious stone]], <span class="bibl">Plin. <span class="title">HN</span>37.58</span>, al.; used as remedy for snake-bite, <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">L.</span>361</span>,<span class="bibl">390</span>, <span class="bibl">419</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[σιδηρῖτις]], [[ἡ]], [[ironwort]], [[Sideritis romana]], Dsc.4.33, <span class="bibl">Plin. <span class="title">HN</span>25.43</span>, <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">CD</span>2.12</span>; also σ. πόα Hsch.; βοτάνη ἡ σ. <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.7.6</span>, Gal.12.885. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> also applied by Dsc. to [[burnet]], [[Poterium Sanguisorba]], 4.34; <b class="b2">Cretan fig-wort, Scrophularia lucida</b>, ib.35; <b class="b2">Achilles' woundwort, Achillea tomentosa</b>, ib.36. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> = [[ἑλξίνη]], ib.85. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> = [[χαμαίπιτυς]], Id.3.158. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> = [[περιστερεὼν ὕπτιος]], Ps.-Dsc.4.60.</span>