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οὖθαρ , ατος, τό, prop. of animals,
A.udder, Od.9.440, Hdt.4.2, Theoc. 8.42,69, etc.; “καθιέναι τὸ οὖθαρ” Arist.HA523a1; τὰ οὔθατα distd. from οἱ μαστοί by Plu.2.496c; eaten as a dish, ib.124f; later of women, breast, A.Ch.532; “ὡς οὖσα θῆλυς εἰκότως οὖ. φορῶ” Telecl. 31.
II. metaph., οὖ. ἀρούρης the richest, most fertile land, Il.9.141, 283, h.Cer.450, Cratin.220; “οὖ. ἀγαθῆς χθονός” Ar.Fr.110; of the vine, “ὀπώρη οὔθατος ἐκ βοτρύων ξανθὸν ἄμελξε γάνος” AP9.645 (Maced.). (Cf. Skt. [umacracute]dhar, gen. [umacracute]dhnas, OE. ūder 'udder', Lat. ūber.）
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 (5):
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 532
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.2
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.141
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.440
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 450
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