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ὀμίχλ-η (
A.“ὁμ-” Eust.117.33 and v. infr. ; a form ὄμιχλ-λα is condemned by Hdn. Philet.p.445 P.), ἡ, mist, fog (not so thick as νέφος or νεφέλη, Arist. Mete.346b33, cf. Mu.394a19), Hom. only in Il. ; “εὖτ᾽ ὄρεος κορυφῇσι Νότος κατέχευεν ὀμίχλην” 3.10 ; so Thetis rises from the sea, “ἠΰτ᾽ ὀμίχλη” 1.359 ; “ὁ. καὶ δρόσος” Ar.Nu.330 ; “κονίης ὀμίχλην” Il.13.336 ; “ὀμίχλη ἐγένετο” X.An.4.2.7, etc. : metaph., “ὄσσοις ὁμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρης δακρύων” A.Pr.145(lyr.).
2. cloud-like darkness, gloom, “κατὰ νυκτὸς ὀ.” AP5.228 (Maced.), cf. Orph.A.521, etc.
3. the steam of cookery, Mnesim.4.64. (Cf. Lith. miglà 'mist.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 145
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.336
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.359
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.10
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.2.7
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 330
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