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|Definition=(A), Dor. ὠδός <span class="title">Berl.Sitzb.</span>1927.170 (Cyrene), Hsch.; Trag. and Att. ὀδός <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>57</span>, <span class="bibl">1590</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1668.33, 7.412.7 (Orop.), <span class="bibl">Lycurg. 40</span>, Hyp.<span class="title">Dem.Fr.</span>6, <span class="bibl">Men.671</span>, <span class="title">BCH</span>35.286 (Delos); also at Samos, <span class="title">Michel</span>832.30, and Epidaurus, <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).102.232 and 249, also (later) at Branchidae, <span class="title">CIG</span>2885d9: gen. pl. ὀδέων <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).109 ii 105, 150 (Epid., iii B. C.): ὁ:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[threshold]], esp. [[threshold of a house]], in Hom. <b class="b3">χάλκεος οὐδός</b> (as in <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>811</span>), <span class="bibl">Od.7.83</span>,<span class="bibl">89</span>; also λάϊνος <span class="bibl">Il.9.404</span>, <span class="bibl">Od. 8.80</span>, <span class="bibl">Parm.1.12</span>; μέλινος <span class="bibl">Od.17.339</span>; δρύϊνος <span class="bibl">21.43</span>; μέγας <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span> 749</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[threshold]], [[entrance]] to any place, ἐπὶ προθύροις Ὀδυσῆος, οὐδοῦ ἐπ' αὐλείου <span class="bibl">Od.1.104</span>; to the nether world, <span class="bibl">Il.8.15</span>; χαλκόπους ὀδός <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>57</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1590</span>: in plural, perhaps [[lintel]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.23.50</span> (dub. l., [[ὀόδων]] cod.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ</b> on the [[threshold]] which is old age, i.e. perhaps, on the [[threshold]] that leads from life to death (so <b class="b3">οὐδὸς βιότου</b> the [[end]] of life, <span class="bibl">Q.S.10.426</span>), <span class="bibl">Il.22.60</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.15.348</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>331</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>328e</span>; ἐπὶ γήρως ὀδῷ Lycurg., Hyp., and Men. ll. cc.; μέχρι γήραος οὐδοῦ <span class="bibl">Ps.-Phoc.230</span>; γήραος οὐδὸν ἱκέσθαι <span class="bibl">Od.23.212</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">15.246</span>.—Poet. word, used by <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Metaph.</span>1042b19</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">TG</span>17</span>, and <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Dom.</span>18</span>, al., in the form [[οὐδός]], which is Ion., cf. <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>78</span>, <span class="title">GDI</span>5601a (Ephesus), <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).158 <span class="title">A</span> 69 (Delos, iii B. C.), and is used later as gloss on [[βηλός]], <span class="title">AB</span>224 (so [[ὀδός]] in 225 and Hsch. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ὀρρόβηλος]]). (The forms <b class="b3">οὐδός ὠδός ὀδός</b> point to [[Οδϝός]].)</span><br /><span class="bld">οὐδός</span> (B), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> = [[ὁδός]], [[way]], only in <span class="bibl">Od.17.196</span>.</span>

|auten=(1): [[threshold]]; [[fig]]., γήραος, ‘[[threshold]] of [[old]] [[age]],’ a poetic periphrasis [[for]] [[old]] [[age]] itself (of [[course]] [[not]] [[meaning]] the ‘[[beginning]]’ of [[old]] [[age]]), Od. 15.246, 348.<br />(2): see [[ὁδός]].<br />[[way]], [[path]], [[road]], [[journey]], Od. 17.196; [[even]] by [[sea]], Od. 2.273 ; πρὸ ὁδοῦ [[γενέσθαι]], ‘[[progress]] on [[one]]'s [[way]],’ Il. 4.382.