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ὀβελός

obelos · ὁ

spit, pointed square pillar, obelisk, horizontal line

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Where it lives

  • Odyssey 8 · 0.92/10k
  • Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
  • Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

spit

spit, ἀμφʼ ὀβελοῖσιν ἔπειραν Il. 1.465, al., cf. Hdt. 2.41, 135, E. Cyc. 303 ; αἱματίου ὀβελὸς τρικώλιος SIG 1025.53 (Cos) ; ὀδελοί Epich. 79 ; κρῆς . . ἂν τὸν ὀδελὸν ἀμπεπαρμένον Megar. in Ar. Ach. 796 ; τὸ θερμὸν τοῦ ὀ., prov. of taking a thing by the wrong end, S. Fr. 814.

2 pointed square pillar, obelisk

ὀ. λίθινος pointed square pillar, obelisk, Hdt. 2.111, 170, Jul. Ep. 59.

3

= ὀβολός, IG 1(2).6.95, al., Milet. 7.59 :—so in Dor. form ὀδελός, Leg.Gort. 2.14, GDI 5011.5 (Crete, iv B. C.), ib. 2561 D 27, al. (Delph., iv B. C.), etc. : Thess. ὀβελλός IG 9(2).1229.20.

II horizontal line

horizontal line,—(representation of an arrow acc. to Isid. Etym. 1.21.3), used as a critical mark to point out that a passage was spurious, Gal. 15.110, Luc. Pr.Im. 24, Sch.Il. ip.xliii Dind. ; with an asterisk to denote misplaced lines, ibid. ; but with one point below and one above, ὀ. περιεστιγμένος, in texts of Plato, denoted τὰς εἰκαίους ἀθετήσεις, D.L. 3.66.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὀβελός (scan pp. 1093-1094; entry #4417).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀβελός (scan pp. 788-789; entry #5746).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὀβελός (scan pp. 1316-1317; entry #4161).

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