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|Definition=(A), Dor. [[ὠδός]] ''Berl.Sitzb.''1927.170 (Cyrene), [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; Trag. and Att. [[ὀδός]] S.''OC''57, 1590, ''IG''22.1668.33, 7.412.7 (Orop.), Lycurg. 40, Hyp.''Dem.Fr.''6, Men.671, ''BCH''35.286 (Delos); also at Samos, ''Michel''832.30, and Epidaurus, ''IG''42(1).102.232 and 249, also (later) at Branchidae, ''CIG''2885d9: gen. pl. ὀδέων ''IG''42(1).109 ii 105, 150 (Epid., iii B. C.): ὁ:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[threshold]], esp. [[threshold of a house]], in Hom. <b class="b3">χάλκεος οὐδός</b> (as in Hes.''Th.''811), Od.7.83,89; also λάϊνος Il.9.404, Od. 8.80, Parm.1.12; μέλινος Od.17.339; δρύϊνος 21.43; μέγας Hes.''Th.'' 749.<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[threshold]], [[entrance]] to any place, ἐπὶ προθύροις Ὀδυσῆος, οὐδοῦ ἐπ' αὐλείου Od.1.104; to the nether world, Il.8.15; χαλκόπους ὀδός S.''OC''57, cf. 1590: in plural, perhaps [[lintel]], Theoc.23.50 (dub. l., [[ὀόδων]] cod.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ</b> on the [[threshold]] which is old age, i.e. perhaps, on the [[threshold]] that leads from [[life]] to [[death]] (so <b class="b3">οὐδὸς βιότου</b> the [[end]] of life, Q.S.10.426), Il.22.60, Od.15.348, Hes.''Op.''331, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.14, cf. Pl.''R.''328e; ἐπὶ γήρως ὀδῷ Lycurg., Hyp., and Men. ll. cc.; μέχρι γήραος οὐδοῦ Ps.-Phoc.230; γήραος οὐδὸν ἱκέσθαι Od.23.212, cf. 15.246.—Poet. word, used by [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1042b19, Plu. ''TG''17, and Luc.''Dom.''18, al., in the form [[οὐδός]], which is Ion., cf. Hp.''Art.''78, ''GDI''5601a (Ephesus), ''IG''11(2).158 ''A'' 69 (Delos, iii B. C.), and is used later as gloss on [[βηλός]], ''AB''224 (so [[ὀδός]] in 225 and [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ὀρρόβηλος]]). (The forms <b class="b3">οὐδός ὠδός ὀδός</b> point to [[Οδϝός]].)<br /><br />(B), ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> = [[ὁδός]], [[way]], only in Od.17.196.