LOGOI

The corpus record

λαιός

laios2

left, on the left, on the left

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What it meant — LSJ

left, on the left, on the left

left, λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε (sc. χειρί) Tyrt. 15.3; λαιᾶς χειρός on the left hand, A. Pr. 714; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί E. HF 159; 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 (Dor.) IG 14.1721.3; 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.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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