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δόρυ , τό, Att. gen. δόρατος, rare in Poets, as Ar.Ach.1120, late Ep. dat. pl.
A.“δοράτεσσι” Q.S.6.363: Ep.and Ion. decl., gen. δούρατος (also in Pi.P.4.38); dat. δούρατι (also in S.Ph.721 (lyr.)); pl. δούρατα, δούρασι (but codd. of Hdt. usu. have δόρατα, δόρασι): more commonly δουρός, δουρί (but “δορί” Archil.2.1); dual δοῦρε; pl. δοῦρα, δούρων, δούρεσσι; dat. pl. “δούροις” Opp.H.3.573: Trag., gen. δορός; dat. δορί or δόρει, the former required by metre in A.Th.347,456,958, Ag.111, E.Hec. 909, Ph.186, etc. (all lyr.), also in Id.Hec.5; δόρει is required in S.OC620, 1314, 1386; “ξὺν δορὶ ξὺν ἀσπίδι” Ar.V.1081, but “σὺν δόρει σὺν ἀσπίδι” Achae.29, cf. Choerob. in Theod.1.346; δορί occurs in Prose in the phrases δορὶ ἑλεῖν, λαβεῖν (v. infr. 11.2): nom. pl. “δόρη” E. Rh.274, Theopomp.Com.25; gen. “δορῶν” Hsch.: nom. “δοῦρας” AP6.97 (Antiphil.). Exc. sg. δόρυ, Hom. uses only the Ion. forms:
I. stem, tree, “οὔπω τοῖον ἀνήλυθεν ἐκ δόρυ γαίης” Od.6.167; but commonly, plank or beam, “δοῦρ᾽ ἐλάτης κέρσαντες” Il.24.450; “δούρατα μακρὰ ταμών” Od.5.162, cf. Il.3.61; “δούρατα πύργων” 12.36; “δούρατ᾽ ἀμάξης” Hes.Op.456; mostly of ships, δόρυ νήϊον ship's plank, Il.15.410, etc.; “νήϊα δοῦρα” Od.9.498; also, mast, E.Tr.1148: hence,
2. δ. εἰνάλιον, ἀμφῆρες, of a ship, Pi.P.4.27, E.Cyc.15; “δ. ποντοπόρον” S.Ph. 721 (lyr.); also δόρυ alone, A.Pers.411, Ag.1618, E.Hel.1611; “ἐπ᾽ Ἀργῴου δορός” Id.Andr.793; also δούρων, of oars, Hymn.Is.152.
3. pillory, stocks, “ἐν δουρὶ δεθεὶς αὐχένα” Anacr.21.9.
II. shaft of a spear, δόρυ μείλινον the ashen shaft, Il.5.666, al.: hence, generally, spear itself, “δ. χάλκεον” 13.247; “ἀσπίδα καὶ δύο δοῦρε” Od.1.256, etc.; hunting-spear, Il.12.303; δόρατα ναύμαχα boarding-pikes, Hdt.7.89: freq. in military phrases, v. πέλεκυς 1; εἰς δόρατος πληγήν within spear's throw, X.Eq.8.10; “εἰς δόρυ ἀφικόμενοι” Id.HG4.3.17; ἐπὶ δόρυ to the right hand, in which the spear was held, opp. ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδα, Id.An.4.3.29 (cf. κλίνω IV. 3, “κλίσις” 111); “παρὰ δόρυ” Id.Lac.11.10; “εἰς δόρυ” Id.HG6.5.18; “τὴν ἐμβολὴν ἐκ δόρατος ποιεῖσθαι” Plb.3.115.9:— ὑπὸ δόρυ πωλεῖσθαι, = Lat. sub hasta venire, D.H.4.24, cf. Str.4.6.7.
b. pole of a standard, X.Cyr.7.1.4.
c. sceptre, E.Hec. 9.
d. stick used as tourniquet, Hp.Nat.Puer.24.
2. metaph., δουρὶ κτεατίζειν win wealth by the spear, i.e. in war, Il.16.57; ὑπὸ δουρὶ πόλιν πέρθαι ib.708; in Prose, δορὶ ἑλεῖν, λαβεῖν, Th.1.128, App. BC4.8; an armed force, “συμμάχῳ δ.” A.Eu.773; “δ. ἐπακτοῦ” S.OC 1525; καὶ τὸ δ. καὶ τὸ κηρύκειον πέμπειν to offer war or peace, Plb. 4.52.4. (Cf. Skt. dā´ru 'piece of wood', δορά (B), δρῦς.）
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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