λάβρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον (also α, ον Damocr. ap. Gal.13.917): <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> in Hom. only of wind and water, [[furious]], [[boisterous]], Ζέφυρος λάβρος ἐπαιγίζων <span class="bibl">Il. 2.148</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.15.293</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vent.</span>50</span>; ὡς ὅτε κῦμα θοῇ ἐν νηῒ πέσῃσι λάβρον <span class="bibl">Il.15.625</span>; ποταμὸς… λ. ὕπαιθα ῥέων <span class="bibl">21.271</span>; ὅτε λαβρότατον χέει ὕδωρ Ζεύς <span class="bibl">16.385</span>: λάβρος [[ὄμβρος]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.12</span>; [[καπνός]], [[σέλας]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>8.36</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">P.</span>3.40</span>; πνεῦμα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>110</span> (lyr.); πῦρ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>697</span>; <b class="b3">λάβρον αὐχέν</b>', of the Hellespont personified, <span class="bibl">Tim.<span class="title">Pers.</span>84</span>; simply, [[huge]], [[mighty]], λίθος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>8.46</span>; <b class="b3">ὕδατα λαβρότερα</b>, expld. by [[ἀθροώτερα]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span> 348b10</span>: neut. as adverb, λάβρον ἐπαιγίζων… Ἔρως <span class="title">AP</span>5.285.2 (Paul. Sil.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> after Hom., of men, [[boisterous]], [[turbulent]], especially in talking, [[hasty]], <span class="bibl">Thgn.634</span>; λάβροι παγγλωσσίᾳ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.86</span>; λάβρον στόμα <span class="bibl">Simon. 177</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1147</span>; λάβρον ὄμμα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>379</span> (anap., s.v.l.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[fierce]], δράκοντος λαβρόταται γένυες <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.244</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>253</span>; [[violent]], [[impetuous]], λάβρος πρὸς τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν τῆς τροφῆς <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>717a23</span> (Comp.); λάβρῳ χρώμενοι τῷ ποτῷ <span class="bibl">D.S.5.26</span>; λάβρος εἰς Βάκχον ὀλισθών <span class="title">AP</span>11.25 (Apollonid.); λαγνεῖαι λαβρόταται <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.103a</span>; ἐπιθυμία <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>717a28</span>; Ἔρως <span class="title">AP</span>5.267 (Paul. Sil.); λάβρῳ μαχαίρᾳ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>403</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[λάβρως]] = [[violently]], [[furiously]], [ἵπποι] ἄνακτα φέρουσι λάβρως <span class="bibl">Thgn. 988</span> (cf. [[λαβροπόδης]], [[λαβρόσυτος]]) ; [[λάβρως]] ὕει <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.7.1</span>; ἄνεμοι καταιγίζοντες [[λάβρως]] <span class="bibl">D.S.5.26</span>; [[ἀθρόως]] καὶ [[λάβρως]] <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Hisp.</span>18</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hann.</span>48</span>; διδόναι [τὸ ὀξύμελι] κατ' ὀλίγον καὶ μὴ λ. <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>58</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.1.452</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[eagerly]], [[greedily]], <b class="b3">λ. διαρταμᾶν</b> (of the [[eagle]]) <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>1022</span>; <b class="b3">τῇ βρώσει χρῆται λ</b>. (of the [[lion]]) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>594b18</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.1.71</span>.—Poet. word, used also in Ion. and late Prose. [λᾱ- by position in Ep.: λᾰ- E.<span class="title">Or.</span> l. c., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HF</span>861</span> (troch.), <span class="title">AP</span>11.25 (Apollonid.).]</span>