ὄστρεον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or [[ὄστρειον]], τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[oyster]]; the proper Att. form is [[ὄστρειον]] (ὄστρεια . . ἔλεγον οἱ ἀρχαῖοι Ath.3.92e, cf. Moer.p.285 P. (who recommends ὀστρία [ῑ] wrongly), Phot., etc.), and this is required by the metre in the earlier Poets, κόγχοι, μύες, κὤστρεια A.''Fr.''34; ὄστρεια συμμεμυκότα Epich.42 ([[ὄστρεα]] codd. Ath.); πίννῃσι καὶ ὀστρείοισιν ὁμοίη Cratin.8; πίνναι, λεπάδες, μύες, ὄστρεια Anaxandr.41.61 (anap.); while [[ὄστρεον]] is used in late Ep., Matro ''Conv.''16, Nic.''Fr.''83, and is found in Pap., ''PCair.Zen.''82.13 (iii B. C.), ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''738.5 (i A. D.):—the readings vary in Pl. (v. infr. III), as in Arist., cf. ''HA''490b10, 525a20: generally, of all [[bivalve]]s, ib.525a20, 528a1, ''Fr.''304, Gal.12.345.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[oyster-shell]] or [[bivalve-shell]], Arist.''HA''531b5, 590a32.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[purple pigment]], prob. that produced by the murex, cf. Arist.''HA''548a12; ὄστρεον μόνον ἐπιφέρειν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''424d; ὀστρείῳ ἐναληλιμμένος Id.''R.''420c; τὰ σώματα ἐκέχριντο ὀστρείῳ Callix.2: <b class="b3">ὄστρεα· τὰ κογχύλια, Αάκωνες ἄνθος</b>, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]