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δαίδαλ-ος , ον,
A.cunningly or curiously wrought, “μάχαιρα” Pi.N.4.59 (Did., Δαιδάλου codd.); “πέπλος” A.Eu.635: in Hom. only neut. as Subst., ὃς χερσὶν ἐπίστατο δαίδαλα πάντα τεύχειν . . to frame all cunning works, Il.5.60, al.; “τεκτόνων δ.” Pi.P.5.36, cf. Opp.C.1.355: also in sg., Od.19.227.
2. spotted, speckled, or perh. rather, sheeny, shot with light, of fish, Opp.C.1.58.
II. as pr. n., Δαίδαλος, ὁ, Daedalus, i. e. the Cunning Worker, the Artist, traditional name for the first sculptor, Il.18.592, Pl.Men.97d: hence δαίδαλα, τά, = statues, Paus.9.3.2: also Δαίδαλα, τά, festival of Hera at Argos, ib., Plu.Daed.tit.
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 (6):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 635
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.227
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.3.2
    • Plato, Meno, 97d
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.592
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.60
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