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|Definition=(A), ὁ, a kind of [[thrush]], prob. the<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[blue thrush]], [[Petrocichla cyanus]], Arist.''HA''617a15, Ant.Lib.19.3.<br /><br />(B), ά, όν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[left]], <b class="b3">λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[χειρί]]) Tyrt.15.3; <b class="b3">λαιᾶς χειρός</b> [[on the left]] hand, A.''Pr.''714; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί E.''HF''159; [[λαιοῖσι]] [[on the left]], Parm.17; ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον Arat.160, cf. Heliod. ap.Stob.4.36.8; <b class="b3">οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[μέρος]]) D.S.13.99; <b class="b3">ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα</b> (Dor.) ''IG''14.1721.3; τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως Philostr.Jun.''Im.''4. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses [[ἀριστερός]]: also in later Prose, <b class="b3">τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί</b> Prov. ap.Plb.38.10.9, cf. Jul.''Or.''2.57d, etc.) (Orig. [[λαιϝός]], cf. Lat. [[laevus]], Slav. [[lèvǔ]]: in [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] we have [[λαίβα]], i.e. [[λαίϝα]], = [[ἀσπίς]], because borne on the left arm; cf. [[λαῖφα]], [[λαῖτα]], [[λαφός]].)