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ὀλισθ-ηρός , ά, όν,
A.slippery, “οἶμος” Pi.P.2.96 (metaph.) ; “ἂν . . ὀ. ᾖ τὸ χωρίον” X.Eq.7.15 ; “λίθοι” Id.An.4.3.6, etc. ; of mucilage, Hp.Acut.10, 15 (Sup.).
II. metaph., slippery, hard to catch and keep hold of, Pl.Sph.231a (Sup.) ; “τύχη” AP10.66 (Agath.); τὸ ὀ. τῆς διανοίας αὐτῶν Ps.-Luc.Philopatr. 22 ; “ὀ. ἱκεσίη” AP5.215 (Agath.).
2. liable to slip, “πόδες” AP7.542 (Stat. Flacc.) ; ὀλισθηροὶ εἰς πόδας ib.398 (Antip.) : metaph., “πρὸς ὀργὴν ὀ.” Plu.Cat.Mi.1. Adv. “-ρῶς, ἔχειν πρός τι” Id.2.31c.
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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