πέδον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, ([[πούς]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[ground]], [[earth]], first in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>455</span> ([[πέδονδε]] is used in Hom.): freq. in later Poetry, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10.46</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">P.</span>1.28</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">χθονὸς πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>1</span>; <b class="b3">γῆς πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>573</span> (lyr.); πέδον κελεύθου στρωννύναι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> 909</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of a particular site, especially of [[sacred]] [[ground]] (poet. and used only in sg.), <b class="b3">Ζηνὸς εὐθαλὲς πέδον</b>, of [[Nemea]], <span class="bibl">B.8.5</span>; <b class="b3">Κρισαῖον πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">El.</span>730</span>; <b class="b3">Αλοξίου πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span> 1036</span>; <b class="b3">Παλλάδος κλεινὸν πέδον</b>, i.e. the [[Acropolis]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>772</span>; <b class="b3">ἁγνὸν ἐς Θήβης πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">Eub. 10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">66</span>; [[πέδον]] c. gen. loci [[periphrasis]] for the place itself, <b class="b3">Εὐρώπης πέδον</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>734</span>; Λήμνου. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span> 1464</span> (anap.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> with a Prep., [[νεύειν]] ἐς πέδον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span>441</span>; πρὸς πέδῳ [[βαλεῖν]], [[κεῖσθαι]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>183</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>180</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[πέδῳ]] = [[on the ground]], [[to earth]], h. Cer. <span class="bibl">455</span>; <b class="b3">πεσόντος αἵματος πέδῳ</b> <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>48</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>263</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">479</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>747</span>; [[ῥίπτειν]] πέδῳ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>39</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Or.</span> 1433</span>, <span class="bibl">1440</span> (both lyr.); πέδῳ σκήψασα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>749</span>; [[πέδοι]] shd. perhaps be read for [[πέδῳ]] in Trag., as also for [[πέδον]] in the phrases πέδον [[πατεῖν]], πέδον [[πατεῖσθαι]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> 1357</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>643</span> (lyr.).</span>