ἠλίβατος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], Dor. [[ἀλίβατος]], ον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[high]], [[steep]], always in Hom. as [[epithet]] of [[πέτρη]] or [[πέτραι]], Il.15.273, al., cf. Hes.''Th.''675, 786, Thgn.176, Pi. ''O.''6.64, A.''Supp.''352 (lyr.), E.''Supp.''80 (lyr.), Theoc.26.10, etc.; [[ὄρος]], [[ἄκρη]], [[ἐρίπναι]], A.R.2.169, 361, 1248; of the Olympian throne of [[Zeus]], Ar.''Av.''1732; of trees, ''h.Ven.''267 (so prob. in Hes.''Sc.''422).—Also in X. and later Prose, <b class="b3">πέτραι ἠ.</b> ''An.''1.4.4; τόποι Plb.4.41.9; πέτρος Str.17.1.50; δένδρα Agatharch.97; πῦρ Hanno ''Peripl.''16; [[σταυρός]] Epigr. ap. Plu.''Flam.''9.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[deep]], [[abysmal]], <b class="b3">ἄντρῳ ἐν ἠ.</b> Hes.''Th.'' 483; <b class="b3">Τάρταρος ἠ.</b> Stes.83; ἠ. ὑπὸ κευθμῶσι E.''Hipp.''732 (lyr.); <b class="b3">πελάγεσσιν ἐν ἠ.</b> Opp.''H.''3.171: metaph., <b class="b3">κακὸν ἠ.</b> Damox.2.22; εὐηθεια Porph.''Abst.''1.12.<br><span class="bld">III</span> in later Poets (perhaps from a misunderstanding of [Κύκλωψ] ἠ. πέτρην ἐπέθηκε θύρῃσιν Od.9.243), [[huge]], [[enormous]], μέλεα Opp.''H.''5.66; σχεδίη Q.S.11.312; so in Prose, [[κῦμα]], [[σκιαί]], Plu.2.163c,935f. (Etym. dub., cf. ἄλιψ· πέτρα, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]])