βόλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[throw with a casting-net]], Orac. ap. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.62; <b class="b3">μέγα δίκτυον ἐς βόλον ἕλκει</b> [[draw]]s it back for a [[cast]], Theoc.1.40: metaph., <b class="b3">εἰς βόλον καθίστασθαι, εἰς βόλον ἔρχεσθαι</b>, [[fall]] within the [[cast]] of the [[net]], E.''Ba.''848, ''Rh.''730.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[net]], Herod.7.75, Ael.''NA''8.3; for birds, ''AP''6.184 (Zos.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[thing caught]], <b class="b3">ἰχθύων βόλος</b> [[draught]], [[catch]], of [[fish]]es, A.''Pers.'' 424, Plu.2.91c; <b class="b3">βόλον ἀνσπάς ασθαι</b> [[land]] one's [[catch]], E.''El.''582.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[casting of teeth]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''576b13 (pl.), ''GA''748b9; <b class="b3">καταμαθεῖν τὸν βόλον</b> [[examine]] a [[horse]]'s [[teeth]], Hierocl.''Facet.''37.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[cast of dice]], Poll.7.204, Plaut.''Rud.''360.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[βόλος]]· [[θύρα]], [[πηλός]] (i.e. [[βῶλος]]). [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]