Μηδικός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="title">Median</span>: <b class="b3">τὰ Μηδικά</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[πράγματα]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the Median affairs]], esp. [[the war with the Medes]], the name given by Gr. historians to the great Persian war, <span class="bibl">Th.1.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1303b33</span>, etc.; ὁ Μ. πόλεμος <span class="bibl">Th.1.90</span>,<span class="bibl">95</span>; <b class="b3">Μ. ἐσθής</b>, i.e. [[silken]] garments, <span class="bibl">Procop.<span class="title">Pers.</span>1.20</span>: Comp. τὰ-ώτερα <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>1.25</span>. Adv. Comp. -ώτερον<b class="b3">, κατεσκευασμένος</b> ib.<span class="bibl">3.26</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">Μηδικὴ πόα</b>, [[lucerne]], [[Medicago sativa]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span> 606</span>; M. alone, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>8.7.7</span>, Dsc.2.147 (by some written [[μηδίκη]], Hdn.Gr.1.316, <span class="bibl">Eust.1967.27</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.S.3.43</span> codd.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">μηδική, ἡ,</b> = [[ἑλένιον]], Dsc.1.28, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>14.108</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">μῆλον Μηδικόν</b>, v. [[μῆλον]] (B). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b3">ὀπὸς Μηδικός</b> a form of silphium juice, prob. [[assafoetida]], Dsc.3.80, <span class="bibl">Philum.<span class="title">Ven.</span>3.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> [[Μηδικόν]], [[τό]], perhaps a tomb [[in Persian style]], <span class="title">JHS</span>22.124.</span>