λουτρόν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, in Hom. always [[λοετρόν]], but contr. form in ''h.Cer.''50, Hes.''Op.''753; Dor. [[λωτρόν]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]: ([[λούω]]):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[bath]], [[bathing-place]], Hom., always in plural, [[θερμὰ λοετρά]] = [[hot baths]], Il.22.444, al.; later [[θερμὰ λουτρά]] A.''Ch.''670, S.''Tr.''634 (lyr.), CratesCom.15, etc.; θερμὰ Νυμφᾶν λουτρά Pi.''O.''12.19; also called Ἡράκλεια λουτρά Ar.''Nu.''1051; λοετρὰ Ὠκεανοῖο Il.18.489, Od.5.275; [[σίτοισι καὶ λουτροῖσι]] = [[in matters of eating and washing]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]6.52; λουτρῷ χρωμένους Plu.2.1109b: sg. first in Hes. [[l.c.]]; τραπέσθαι πρὸς τὸ λ. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 115a, cf. X.''Oec.''9.7: in plural, [[bathing establishment]], τὰ [[δημόσια λουτρά]] ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''1252 ''B''22 (iii A. D.), etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[water for bathing]] or [[water for washing]], ὑδάτων ἐνεγκεῖν λουτρά [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''1599; [[ἐν λουτροῖς]] = [[while bathing]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.5.59; [[λοῦσαί τινα λουτρόν]] = [[give one a bath]], [[wash one with water]], S.''Ant.''1201, Ar.''Lys.'' 469; [[λουτρὸν παρέχειν]] ib.377; [[λοῦσθαι λουτρόν]] = [[bathe]], A.''Fr.''366 (note); λουτρόν ἐστιν, οὐ πότος Alex.9; [[νυμφικὰ λουτρά]] = the [[conveying of water to the bride]] (cf. [[λουτροφόρος]]), Poll.3.43; in [[NT]], of [[baptism]], ''Ep.Eph.'' 5.26; λ. παλιγγενεσίας ''Ep.Tit.''3.5.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in Poets, = [[σπονδαί]], [[libations to the dead]], S.''El.''84,434, E.''Ph.''1667, cf. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[χθόνια λουτρά]].