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βα^θυ?́-κολπος , ον,
A.with dress falling in deep folds (cf. βαθύζωνος), epith. of Trojan women, Il.18.122,339,24.215; of Nymphs, h.Cer.5, Ven.257; Muses, Pi.P.1.12; παρθένος (of Aegina) Id.Pae.6.135: hence, with deep, full breasts, “ἐκ β. στηθέων” A.Th.864(lyr.): metaph. of the earth, deep-bosomed, Pi.P.9.101.
2. simply, very deep, “χειή” Nonn.D.12.327; with deep foundations, ib.40.534; set deep, ὀχῆα ib.21.94.
3. = ἀρχαία, παλαιά, κοίλη, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 864
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.215
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 5
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.122
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