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

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I. in Hom. only of wind and water, furious, boisterous, “Ζέφυρος λάβρος ἐπαιγίζων” Il. 2.148, cf. Od.15.293, Thphr.Vent.50; “ὡς ὅτε κῦμα θοῇ ἐν νηῒ πέσῃσι λάβρον” Il.15.625; “ποταμὸς . . λ. ὕπαιθα ῥέων” 21.271; “ὅτε λαβρότατον χέει ὕδωρ Ζεύς” 16.385: “λ. ὄμβρος” Hdt.8.12; καπνός, σέλας, Pi.O.8.36, P.3.40; “πνεῦμα” A.Pers.110 (lyr.); “πῦρ” E.Or.697; λάβρον αὐχέν', of the Hellespont personified, Tim.Pers.84; simply, huge, mighty, “λίθος” Pi.N.8.46; ὕδατα λαβρότερα, expld. by ἀθροώτερα, Arist.Mete. 348b10: neut. as Adv., “λάβρον ἐπαιγίζων . . Ἔρως” AP5.285.2 (Paul. Sil.).

II. after Hom., of men, boisterous, turbulent, esp.in talking, hasty, Thgn.634; “λάβροι παγγλωσσίᾳ” Pi.O.2.86; “λ. στόμα” Simon. 177, S.Aj.1147; “λ. ὄμμα” E.Hel.379 (anap., s.v.l.).

2. fierce, “δράκοντος λαβρόταται γένυες” Pi.P.4.244, cf.E.HF253; violent, impetuous, “λ. πρὸς τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν τῆς τροφῆς” Arist.GA717a23 (Comp.); “λάβρῳ χρώμενοι τῷ ποτῷ” D.S.5.26; “λάβρος εἰς Βάκχον ὀλισθών” AP11.25 (Apollonid.); “λαγνεῖαι λαβρόταται” Ti.Locr.103a; “ἐπιθυμία” Arist.GA717a28; “Ἔρως” AP5.267 (Paul. Sil.); “λάβρῳ μαχαίρᾳ” E.Cyc.403.

III. Adv. λάβρως violently, furiously, [“ἵπποι] ἄνακτα φέρουσι λάβρως” Thgn. 988 (cf. λαβροπόδης, -συτος）“; λ. ὕει” Thphr.HP4.7.1; “ἄνεμοι καταιγίζοντες λ.” D.S.5.26; “ἀθρόως καὶ λ.” App.Hisp.18, cf. Hann.48; “διδόναι [τὸ ὀξύμελι] κατ᾽ ὀλίγον καὶ μὴ λ.” Hp.Acut.58, cf. Ph.1.452.

2. eagerly, greedily, λ. διαρταμᾶν (of the eagle) A.Pr.1022; τῇ βρώσει χρῆται λ. (of the lion) Arist.HA594b18, cf. Ph.1.71.—Poet. word, used also in Ion. and late Prose. [λα_- by position in Ep.: λα^- E.Or. l. c., HF861 (troch.), AP11.25 (Apollonid.).]

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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