- λαιός
- λαιός (A), ὁ, a kind of thrush, prob. theA blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus, Arist.HA617a15, Ant.Lib.19.3.------------------------------------λαιός (B), ά, όν,A left, λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε (sc. χειρί) Tyrt.15.3; λαιᾶς χειρός on the left hand, A.Pr.714;
πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί E.HF159
; λαιοῖσι on the left, Parm.17;ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον Arat.160
, cf. Heliod. ap.Stob.4.36.8; οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες (sc. μέρος) D.S.13.99; ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα ([dialect] Dor.) IG14.1721.3;τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως Philostr.Jun.Im.4
. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses ἀριστερός: also in later Prose, τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί Prov. ap.Plb.38.10.9, cf. Jul.Or.2.57d, etc.) (Orig. λαιϝός, cf. Lat.laevus, Slav. lèv[ucaron]: in Hsch. we have λαίβα, i.e. λαίϝα, = ἀσπίς, because borne on the left arm; cf. λαῖφα, λαῖτα, λαφός.)
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