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δρομ-αῖος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Alc.245 (lyr.):—
A.running at full speed, swift, “κἀγὼ δρομαία βᾶσα” S.Tr.927; “οὐχ ὡς δ. πῶλος” E.Hel.543; νεφέλας δρομαίου Id.Alc. l. c.; “χωρεῖ δρομαίαν” Id.Fr.495.4; “δρομαίαν πτέρυγ᾽ ἐκτείνων” Ar.Pax 160: in Prose, λαγὼς δ. a hare run by hounds, opp. εὐναῖος, X.Cyn.5.9; ἴχνη δ., opp. εὐναῖα, the track of a running hare, ib.3.8: metaph., “δ. τῆς ψυχῆς ὁρμή” Alcid. ap. Arist.Rh.1406a23. Adv. -ως Sch.E.Or.1416.
II. epith. of Apollo, as patron of racing, Plu.2.724c, IG5(1).497, al. (Sparta).
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 (7):
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 160
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 245
    • Euripides, Helen, 543
    • Euripides, Orestes, 1416
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 3.8
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 5.9
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 927
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