φοῖνιξ

φοῖνιξ, ῑκος, ὁ, ἡ,

A Phoenician,

Φοῖνιξ ἀνὴρ ἀπατήλια εἰδώς Od.14.288

, cf. 13.272, 15.415;

ὡς Φ. ἀνήρ, Σιδώνιος κάπηλος S.Fr.909

.

2 fem.,

γυνή Φοίνισσα Od.15.417

; Φοίνισσαι, name of plays by Euripides, Phrynichus, etc.; also

Φ. ἐμπολά Pi.P.2.67

; χθών, νᾶσος, etc., E.Ph.6,204 (lyr.), etc.; Φ. βοά ib.301 (lyr.);

κώπη Id.Hel.1272

;

Φ. ἄμπεχος PCair.Zen.33.14

(iii B. C.).

II Carthaginian,

ἀλαλατός Pi.P.1.72

; also fem.,

Φοίνισσαι νῆες Th.1.116

, D.S.13.80.

B [full] φοῖνιξ, ῑκος, ὁ, purple or crimson, because the discovery and earliest use of this colour was ascribed to the Phoenicians, Il. 4.141, 6.219, Od.23.201, etc.:—hence,

2 as Adj. (fem.

φοίνισσα Pi.

(v. infr.); φοῖνιξ as fem., E.Tr.815), blood-bay, of a horse, Il. 23.454; of red cattle,

φοίνισσα ἀγέλα Pi.P.4.205

, cf. Theoc.25.128: of the colour of fire,

φοίνισσα φλόξ Pi.P.1.24

; πυρὸς φ. πνοά E.l.c.; also

φ. ἱμάντες Simon.17

;

πέπλοι E.Hel.181

(lyr.), etc.

II date-palm, Phoenix dactylifera, Od.6.163, h.Ap.117, Pi.Fr.75 14 (dub.), E. Hec.458 (lyr.), D.S.2.53;

τόξα ἐκ φοίνικος σπάθης πεποιημένα Hdt.7.69

, etc.: the male and female distd. by Hdt. as [ὁ φ.] ἔρσην and [ἡ φ.] βαλανηφόρος, 1.193 (but the latter is masc., ibid. and in 4.172, 182);

φοινίκων . . τῶν καρπίμων οἱ μὲν ἄρρενες αἱ δὲ θήλειαι Thphr.HP2.6.6

, but αἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρρένων πρὸς τοὺς θήλεις [βοήθειαι] ib.2.8.4.

2 palm-frond, as a badge of victory, Arist MM1196a36, Plu.2.723b, etc.;

τὸν φ. τινὶ ἀποδοῦναι Chrysipp.Stoic.3.175

.

3 date, Hellanic.56J., Epich. 18, Antiph.65, Ephipp.24; more correctly,

τοῦφοίνικος ὁ καρπός Hdt.1.193

;

καρπὸς φοίνικος Hermipp.63.22

(hex.); cf. φοινικοβάλανος.

III

ὁ χαμαιρριφής

dwarf-palm, Chamaerops humilis,

Thphr.HP2.6.11

.

2 a Bactrian tree, Mazri palm, Nannorhops ritchieana, ib.4.4.8.

3 a sea-plant, Callophyllis laciniata, ib.4.6.2, 10.

4 rye-grass, Lolium perenne, Dsc.4.43.

IV a musical instrument, like a guitar, invented by the Phoenicians, Hdt.4.192, Ephor.4 J., Phillis 2 (pl.), Scamon 3; but so called because made from the Delian palm, acc. to Semus 1.

V the fabulous bird phoenix, Hes.Fr.171.4, Antiph.175; from Arabia acc. to Hdt.2.73; but from India, Philostr. VA3.49: prov.,

φοίνικος ἔτη βιοῦν Luc.Herm.53

.

VI an ornament, LXX Ez.41.25.

VII perfume prepared from the fronds of the date-palm, Thphr.Od.28.

VIII a fish, Ael.NA12.24.

IX a bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.49.11.2.

X = εὐρύνοτος, Agathem.2.7.

XI φ. ἐν ὁπλῇ, a disease of the hoof, Hippiatr.10.

XII an eye-salve, Aët.7.116. [In all senses of the word [pron. full] ῑ in gen., but nom. φοῖνιξ, not φοίνιξ, Hdn.Gr. ap. Choerob. in Thd.1.292.]