ψάμμος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, but in Archim.Aren.1.1, al., always ὁ:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[sand]], used by Hom. for [[ψάμαθος]] only in Od.12.243, later very freq., Hdt.8.71, etc.: pl., [[ψάμμοι]] = [[grains of sand]], αἱ ἀπ' ἀλλήλων ἐσκεδασμέναι ψάμμοι S.E.P.1.130: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν]] = [[grain]]s of [[sand]] [[escape]] [[count]]ing Pi.O.2.98; [[οἶδα]] δ' ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ' ἀριθμόν καὶ μέτρα θαλάσσης = [[grain]]s of [[sand]] I [[reckon]] and [[measure]] the [[space]]s of [[ocean]] Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47; [[ἐκ]] ψάμμου [[σχοινίον]] [[πλέκειν]], of [[labour in vain]], Aristid.2.309J.; of something [[worthless]], LXX Wi.7.9, D. Chr.77/8.30; ψάμμου ἄξιον Oenom. ap. Eus.PE5.21.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[metallic]] [[ore]] used by [[alchemist]]s, in plural, Olymp.Alch.p.106B., Zos.Alch. p.239 B.<br><span class="bld">II</span> ἡ [[ψάμμος]] the [[sandy]] [[desert]] of [[Libya]], the [[sand]], Hdt.3.25, 4.173; πλείστης ψάμμου OGI666.27 (Egypt, i A. D.). (Prob. Ψαφ-μος, cf. [[ψαφαρός]], [[ψῆφος]], Lat. [[sabulum]].)