μύδρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, [[anvil]] of stone or metal, A.''Fr.''307 (reading [[μύδρος]]) <b class="b3">; τύπτεσθαι μύδρος</b>, i.e. as hard as an [[anvil]], Antiph.195.3; also the [[redhot mass of iron]] on the anvil, Call.''Dian.''49, Nic.''Al.''50; <b class="b3">μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν</b> hold [[red-hot iron]] in the hands, as an ordeal, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Antigone|Ant.]]''264; μύδρον σιδήρεον κατεπόντωσαν [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.165, cf. Arist.''Ath.''23.5, ''IG''12.682 (prob.), Call.''Fr.''209; <b class="b3">Πακτώλιος μ.</b> [[lump]] [of gold] from Pactolus, Lyc.272; <b class="b3">μ. διάπυρος</b> a red-hot [[mass of stone or metal]], of the sun, Anaxag. ap. D.L.2.8, cf. 15, Archel. in ''[[Placita Philosophorum|Placit.]]''2.13.6, Ph.1.623; ἀστέρος μ. Critias 25.35 D.; <b class="b3">μ. διάπυροι</b> the stones thrown out by Aetna, Arist.''Mu.''395b23, cf. Str.6.2.8; also, of [[red-hot stones]] or [[pieces of metal]], thrown into a liquid to vaporize it, Hp.''Mul.''2.134: generally, a [[stone]], Orph.''A.''896; <b class="b3">ὁ ἀὴρ διάπυρος καὶ μ. γενόμενος</b> dub. in Hp. ''Flat.''8; <b class="b3">μύδρος κίων παχὺς ἄξυστος</b> (sine interpr.) ''Glossaria'' (Not in Hom. exc. in a spurious line read by some after Il.15.21.) (Cf. [[σμύδρος]].)