A.olive-oil, in Hom. mostly anointing-oil, used after the bath, “λοεσσαμένω καὶ ἀλειψαμένω λίπ᾽ ἐλαίῳ” Il.10.577, cf. 14.171, 18.350, etc.; before wrestling and other gymnastic exercises, “πωλησεῦντι τὸ ἔ. εἰς τὸ γυμνάσιον” IG12(1).3 (Rhodes); ἔ. θεῖναι to provide oil at the baths, ib.4.597,606 (Argos): prov., “πῦρ ἐλαίῳ κοιμίσαι” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.8（a); “ἐλαίῳ πῦρ κατας βεννύναι” Luc.Tim.44; εὐῶδες ἔ. Od.2.339; ῥοδόεν (rose-scented) Il.23.186; “ἔ. ῥόδινον” Hp. Mul.2.135; ἔ. λευκον ib.136; “τοῦ λευκοτάτου πάντων ἐ. Σαμιακοῦ” Antiph.331.
ἔλαιον , τό, (ἐλαία)
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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