ὀλοίτροχος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. ὀλοοίτροχος, ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[large stone]], [[boulder]], Ἕκτωρ ἀντικρὺ μεμαώς, ὀλοοίτροχος ὣς ἀπὸ πέτρης, ὅν τε κατὰ στεφάνης ποταμὸς χειμάρροος ὤσῃ ῥήξας . . ἔχματα πετρης <span class="bibl">Il.13.137</span>; = [[τὸ κυλινδρικὸν σχῆμα]], <span class="bibl">Democr.162</span>; of the rounded muscles of an athlete's arm, ἕστασαν ἠΰτε πέτροι ὀλοίτροχοι, οὕστε κυλίνδων χειμάρρους ποταμὸς μεγάλαις περιέξεσε δίναις <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.49</span>; rolled down by besieged people upon their assailants, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.52</span>, Orac. ap. eund.<span class="bibl">5.92</span>.β', <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Zos. 1.52</span>. (The ancients derived it from [[ὀλοός]] 'destructive' or from [[ὅλος]], and disagreed as to the breathing and accent, Sch.Il.l.c.)</span>