λεία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), ἡ, (λεῖος) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[tool for smoothing stone]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>531</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> v. [[λαιαί]].</span><br /><span class="bld">λεία</span> (B), Ion. ληΐη, Dor. λᾴα (<span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).44</span>), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[booty]], [[plunder]], freq. in Hdt. (v. infr.), etc. (Hom. and Hes. always use [[ληΐς]]); especially of cattle, opp. [[ἄνθρωποι]], Pi.l.c., <span class="bibl">Th.2.94</span> (v. infr. <span class="bibl">4</span>); λείας ἀπαρχὴν βοῦς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>761</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aj.</span>54</span>, <span class="bibl">145</span> (anap.): pl., <b class="b3">ἐφθαρμένας εὑρίσκομεν λείας ἁπάσας</b> ib.<span class="bibl">26</span>; rarely of persons, ἀγόμεθα λεία <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>614</span>; [[prey]] of hunters, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>326</span>: generally, [[booty]], <span class="bibl">Th.8.3</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.2.4</span>, <span class="bibl">1.3.2</span>; <b class="b3">τοὺς λοιποὺς ληΐην θέσθαι</b> give them up [[as plunder]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.202</span>; <b class="b3">λείαν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν χώραν</b>, = [[λεηλατεῖν τὴν χώραν]], <span class="bibl">Th.8.41</span>; λείαν ἄγειν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>5.3.1</span>; ἐπὶ λείαν ἐκπορεύσονται <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">An.</span>5.1.8</span>, etc.; κατὰ ληΐην ἐκπλῶσαι <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.152</span>: pl., διεσκεδασμένοι κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας λείας <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.2.5</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">Μυσῶν λεία</b>, of anything that may be plundered with impunity, <span class="bibl">Stratt.35</span>, <span class="bibl">D.18.72</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1372b33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[plunder]] (as an act), ζῶσι ἀπὸ ληΐης καὶ πολέμου <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.103</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[stolen property]], τὴν λ. ἀποδοῦναι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>145.16</span> (iii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.438.10</span>-<span class="bibl">13</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[flocks and herds]], [[cattle]], ἀπογραφὴ λείας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.33.2</span> (iii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.279</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1012</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">D.S.19.21</span>, <span class="bibl">97</span>; ἀτέλεια τῆς λ. <span class="title">OGI</span>748.9 (Cyzic., iii B.C.). (Lit. [[the people's property]], cf. Lat. [[populari]] 'plunder'.)</span>