Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, γάλα

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A.“γάλακι” Call.Hec. 1.4.4, prob. in Pherecr.108.18, cf. An.Ox.4.338), also τοῦ γάλα indecl., Pl.Com.238: dat. pl. “γάλαξι” Pl.Lg.887d. (For γλακτ-, cf. Lat.lac for glact):—milk, “ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν” Il.4.434, cf. Od.4.88, etc.; εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ., A.Pers.611, Ch.898; ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη, at the breast, E.HF1266, Pl.Ti.81c; ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι Id.Lg.l.c. (so metaph., ἐν σπαργάνοις καὶ γάλαξιν εἶναι, of art, Ael.VH 8.8); “διδόναι γάλα” X.Cyn.7.4; ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος to fill full of milk, Theoc.24.3: metaph., “οἶνος, Ἀφροδίτης γ.” Ar.Fr.596.

2. ὀρνίθων γ. （ὄρνιθος γάλα, = ὀρνιθόγαλον, Nic.Fr.71.5, Dsc.2.144), prov. of rare and dainty things, Ar.V.508, Av.734, Mcn.936; “τὸ λεγόμενον, σπανιώτατον πάρεστιν ὀρνίθων γ.” Mnesim.9, cf. Ach. Tat.Intr.Arat. 4 (expld. by Anaxag.22 as white of egg, cf. Sch.Luc.Merc.Cond. 13).

3. ἀγαθὸν γ. a good wet-nurse, Call.Epigr.51; οὐδ᾽ εἰ γ. λαγοῦ “εἶχον . . καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον” Alex.123.

II. milky sap of plants, Thphr.HP6.3.4, etc.

III. the milky way, Parm.11, Arist.Mete. 345a12, Arat.476; but “ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος” Euc.Phaen.p.4M., Gem.5.69.

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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