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

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2. tongue, as the organ of speech, γλώσσης χάριν through love of talking, Hes.Op.709, A.Ch. 266; “γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ” Id.Pr.331, cf.Eu.830; “γλώσσης ἀκρατής” Id.Pr.884 (lyr.); “μεγάλης γ. κόμποι” S.Ant.128; γλώσσῃ δεινός, θρασύς, Id.OC806, Aj.1142; “ἡ γ. ὀμώμοχ᾽ ἡ δὲ φρὴν ἀνώμοτος” E.Hipp.612: with Preps., ἀπὸ γλώσσης by frankness of speech, Thgn.63; “φθέγγεσθαι” Pi.O.6.13 (but ἀπὸ γ. ληίσσεται, opp. χερσὶ βίῃ, of fraud opp. violence, Hes. Op.322); also, by word of mouth, Hdt.1.123, Th.7.10, Arr.An.2.14.1; “τῷ νῷ θ᾽ ὁμοίως κἀπὸ τῆς γ. λέγω” S.OC936; τὰ γλώσσης ἄπο, i.e. our words, E.Ba.1049; ἀπὸ γ. φράσω by heart, opp. γράμμασιν, Cratin.122; οὐκ ἀπὸ γλώσσης not from mere word of mouth, but after full argument, A.Ag.813; μὴ διὰ γλώσσης without using the tongue, E.Supp.112; “ἐν ὄμμασιν . . δεδορκὼς κοὐ κατὰ γλῶσσαν κλύων” S.Tr. 747:—phrases: πᾶσαν γλῶτταν βασάνιζε try every art of tongue, Ar. V.547; πᾶσαν ἱέναι γλῶσσαν let loose one's whole tongue, speak withoutrestraint, S.El.596; “πολλὴν γ. ἐγχέας μάτην” Id.Fr.929; κακὰ γ. slander, Pi.P.4.283: pl., ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις, i.e. with blasphemies, S.Ant.962 (lyr.), cf.Aj.199 (lyr.): βοῦς, κ ῇς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ, v. βοῦς, κλείς.

3. of persons, one who is all tongue, speaker, of Pericles, “μεγίστη γ. τῶν Ἑλληνίδων” Cratin.293, cf. Ar.Fr.629 (s. v. l.).

4. ἡ γ. τοῦ ταμιείου the advocacy of the fiscus, Philostr. VS2.29.

II. language, “ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλων γ. μεμιγμένη” Od.19.175, cf. Il.2.804; γλῶσσαν ἱέναι speak a language or dialect, Hdt.1.57; γ. Ἑλληνίδα, Δωρίδα ἱέναι, Id.9.16, Th.3.112, cf. A.Pers.406, Ch.564; “γλῶσσαν νομίζειν” Hdt.1.142, 4.183; “γλώσσῃ χρῆσθαι” Id.4.109; “κατὰ τὴν ἀρχαίαν γ.” Arist.Rh.1357b10; dialect, “ἡ Ἀττικὴ γ.” Demetr.Eloc.177; but also “Δωρὶς διάλεκτος μία ὑφ᾽ ἥν εἰσι γ. πολλαί” Tryph. ap. Sch.D.T.p.320 H.

2. obsolete or foreign word, which needs explanation, Arist. Rh.1410b12, Po.1457b4, Plu.2.406f: hence Γλῶσσαι, title of works by Philemon and others.

3. people speaking a distinct language, LXX.Ju.3.8 (pl.), interpol. in Scyl.15.

III. anything shaped like the tongue (cf. “γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρός” Act.Ap.2.3).

1. in Music, rced or tongue of a pipe, Aeschin.3.229, Arist.HA565a24, Thphr.HP4.11.4, etc.

2. tongue or thong of leather, shoe-latchet, Pl.Com.51, Aeschin.Socr.57.

3. tongue of land, App.Pun.121, cf. 95.

4. ingot, “γ. χρυσῆ” LXX Jo.7.21.

5. marking on the liver, in divination, Hsch. (γλῶσσα from γλωχ-y[acaron], cf. γλώξ, γλωχίς; γλάσσα from Γλα^χ-y[acaron], weak grade of same root.)

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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