Ἄδωνις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ιδος (also -ιος Pherecr.198), ὁ, [[Adonis]],<br><span class="bld">A</span> ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν Sapph.63; Ἀδώνι' ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄ. κλάομεν Pherecr.170; [[ὥδωνις]], i.e. [[ὁ Ἄδωνις]], Theoc.3.47:—hence, generally, [[favourite]], [[darling]], δεῖ Ἀδώνιδας αὐτοὺς ἀκούειν Luc.Merc.Cond.35, cf. Alciphr.1.39, AP5.112 (Marc.Arg.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι]] [[cutting]]s [[plant]]ed in [[pot]]s for the [[Adonia]], Pl.Phdr.276b, Thphr.HP6.7.3, cf. Theoc.15.113: [[proverb|prov.]], of any [[short-lived]] [[pleasure]], Sch.Pl.l.c.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[αὐλὴ Ἀδώνιδος]], at [[Rome]], [[garden]] on the [[Palatine]], Philostr.VA7.32.<br><span class="bld">II</span> kind of [[flying]]-[[fish]] = [[ἐξώκοιτος]] ([[exocoetus]]), Clearch.73, Opp.H. 1.157, etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[Adonis]] [[flower]], [[Anemone fulgens]], Aus.Idyll.6.11.