πλόος

πλόος, ὁ, [dialect] Att. [var] contr. [full] πλοῦς; pl.

A

πλοῖ S.Ph.304

, X.An.5.7.7; gen.

πλῶν OGI132.9

(Egypt, ii B.C.); dat.

πλοῖς Antipho 5.83

; acc.

πλοῦς Arist.Mete.362b24

; later, a gen. sg. πλοός, as if of third declens. (cf. χοῦς A), Peripl.M.Rubr.62, OGI572.21 (Myra, ii/iii A.D.), X. Eph.1.14; dat.

πλοΐ D.S.21.2

: pl.

πλόες Phot.

; acc.

πλόας IGRom. 4.841

([place name] Hierapolis): ([etym.] πλέω):—sailing, voyage, Od.3.169, Hdt. (who always has the disyll. form) 2.29, etc.;

ἔσσεται Ἀγεάνακτι καλὸς π. ἐς Μιτυλάναν Theoc.7.52

;

ναῶν π. Pi.O.7.32

;

πλόον ὁρμαίνειν Od.

l.c.; πλοῦν στεῖλαι, ποιεῖσθαι, S.Aj.1045, Ph.552; ἔξω πλόου out of one's course, Pi.P.11.39;

ἐπ' ἡμέρας τέσσερας πλόος Hdt.2.29

; μῆκός ἐστι πλόος ἡμέραι τέσσερες its length is four days' sail, ib.158; ἐκ τῶν πλόων when the voyage is done, Id.1.185: metaph.,

διὰ τοῦ πλοῦ . . τῆς ζωῆς Pl.Lg.803b

.

2 time or tide for sailing, ὡραῖος π., εἰαρινὸς π., Hes.Op.630, 678;

καιρὸς καὶ π. S.Ph.1450

(anap.); π. ἡμῖν ἐγίγνετο, i.e. the wind was fair, Antipho 5.24, cf. Th.1.137;

π. ἐστί τινι E.Hec.899

, IA92;

παραπεσόντος π. τισί Plb.4.57.6

; πλῷ χρήσασθαι to have a fair wind, Th.3.3;

πλόον δοκάζων Sophr.52

: pl.,

καλλίστοις ἐχρήσαντο πλοῖς Antipho 5.83

.

3 prov., δεύτερος π. 'the next best way', of those who try another scheme if the first fails (from those who use oars when the wind fails, ὁ δ. π. ἐστι δήπου λεγόμενος, ἂν ἀποτύχῃ τις οὐρίου (cj.),

κώπαισι πλεῖν Men.241

), Pl.Phd. 99d, Phlb.19c, Plt.300c; δεύτερος δὲ π. . . , πειρᾶσθαι . . the next best thing is to try . . , Arist.Pol.1284b19;

κατὰ τὸν δ. πλοῦν Id.EN1109a35

;

δ. ἂν εἴη π. τὸ . . Plb.8.36.6

: prov.,

οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐπὶ τράπεζάν ἐσθ' ὁ π. Nicol.Com.1.26

, cf. Κόρινθος; ἡμέτερος ὁ π. 'our innings', Com.Adesp.274.

4 later, = ὁδός, βαιὸν π. αἰὲν ὀκέλλει, of the crawling of a serpent, Nic.Th.295, cf. Sch. ad loc.

b highway,

ὑλήεντα διὰ πλόον ἐρχομένοισι Antim.62

;

ἔχοντα παρὰ πλόον οἰκίον Call.Hec.1.4.13

.