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ῥα^δι^νός , ή, όν, Aeol. βράδι^νος [α^], α, ον, poet. Adj.
A.slender, taper, “ἱμάσθλη” Il.23.583; “ἄκοντες” Stesich.53; “κίονες” Ibyc.58; of plants, “ὄρπαξ” Sapph.104; “φοῖνιξ” Thgn.6; “κυπάρισσοι” Theoc.11.45, 27.46.
2. of the limbs or body, taper, slim, slender, “πόδες” h.Cer.183, Hes.Th.195; “χεῖρες” Thgn.1002, cf. Ath.Mitt.17.272 (Athens, ii A.D.); “μηροί” Anacr. 66; “πῶλοι” Id.165 (unless in signf. 3); “βραδίναν Ἀφροδίταν” Sapph.90; “παῖς” Theoc.10.24; “σώματα” X.Lac.2.5; “ῥ. τῷ μήκει τοῦ σώματος” Plu.2.723d; of the neck, Aret.SD1.8; “τράχηλος” AP5.131 (Phld.); πτέρυγες (of a cicada) ib.7.200 (Nic.).
3. generally, soft, tender, ῥαδινῇ τῇ κόμῃ, of ivy, Ach.Tat.1.15; “δέρμα προβάτου ὡς ὅτι ῥαδινώτατον” Id.3.21: metaph., tender or mobile, “ὄσσε” A.Pr.401 (lyr.); and the Gramm. (Sch.A. l.c.) give εὐκίνητος among other interpretations.
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 (8):
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 401
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 195
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.583
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 183
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 2.5
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.8
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 1.15
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 3.21
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