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λεῖος , α, ον,
A.smooth to the touch, [αἴγειρος] Il.4.484; “λ. ὥσπερ ἔγχελυς” Ar.Fr.218, cf. Eup.338; χῆμαι, χηραμβίς, PCair.Zen.82.12 (iii B.C.), Hsch.s.v. χήμη; τὰ τραχέα καὶ τὰ λ. X.Mem.3.10.1; freq. in Pl., Cra.414b, al., Arist.Cat.10a17, etc.; also, of cloths, smooth, plain, not embroidered, “ὑφαντά τε καὶ λ.” Th.2.97; “λ. ὕφασμα” Pl.Plt.310e; λεῖα ἐκπεποιημένα worked smooth, of marble, IG12.372.134; also λεία ἐργασία ib.372.165; unsculptured, “Ἀθήνης ἕδος” Call.Fr.105.4; of plate, unembossed, “φιάλαι” IG11(2).161 B27 (Delos, iii B.C.), Inscr.Délos 442 B78 (ii B.C.).
2. in Hom., chiefly of level places or countries, “λεῖος δ᾽ ἱππόδρομος ἀμφίς” Il.23.330; ἐν λείῳ πεδίῳ ib.359; “λ. ὁδός” Od.10.103, Hes.Op.288 (ap. X., Pl., etc., ὀλίγη codd.); “λ. ἄροσις” Od.9.134; λεῖα δ᾽ ἐποίησεν made a smooth place, Il.12.30; “πεδίον λ.” Hdt.2.29; “χωρίον λειότατον” Id.7.9.“β́; ἡ -οτάτη τῶν ὁδῶν” Id.9.69; λ. θάλασσα a smooth sea, Id.2.117; “λ. χώρα καὶ ἄξυλος” X.Ath. 2.12; λ. βάσεις flat feet, Gal.6.856.
b. c. gen., χῶρος . . λεῖος πετράων smooth (i.e. free) from rocks, Od.5.443, 7.282.
3. smoothskinned, without hair, of animals, Arist.HA582b35, LXX Ge.27.11; -“ότατον τῶν ζῴων ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος” Arist.HA583a6; esp. of youths, smooth-chinned, beardless (cf. λείαξ), Theoc.5.90, cf. AP12.13 (Strat.); also, of fish, smooth, “ἱππίδια” Epich.44; opp. λεπιδωτοί, Arist.HA505a26; [γαλεός] the smooth shark, Mustelus laevis, ib.565b2, Opp.H.1.380; “τὸ λ.” Hp.Epid.3.14, 6.3.16; λείη ὑπόστασις a smooth or uniform sediment, Id.Coac.462; [“γάλα] λ. καὶ ὁμαλὸν καὶ συνεχὲς ἑαυτῷ” Sor. 1.91.
4. metaph., smooth, soft, “πνεῦμα” Ar.Ra.1003; of the sound of the voice, Pl.Plt.307a, Ti.67b, Phlb.51d; “διάλεκτος” Phld.Po.Herc. 994.36; of the taste, Ti.Locr.100e sq.; also “λ. μῦθοι” A.Pr.647; [τὸ] ἥμερόν τε καὶ λ. [τοῦ ἤθους] Pl.Cra.406a; λ. πάθημα, opp. τραχύ, Id.Ti.63e; “λ. κινήματα τῆς σαρκός” Epicur.Fr.411; λ. κίνησις, Cyrenaic phrase for ἡδονή, D.L.2.86, cf. Luc.Par.10, Alex.Aphr.in Top.94.32; “λ. ἡσυχίη” AP7.278 (Arch. Byz.); ὡς -οτέρου ἐλέους ὑπάρξοντος (sed leg. τελειοτέρου) Plb.20.9.11; τὸ λ., = λειότης, τῆς ἑρμηνείας D.H. Lys.24; “τὸ λ. καὶ ὁμαλὲς τῆς συνθέσεως” Demetr.Eloc.48. Adv. λείως smoothly, gently, Pl.Tht.144b, Plu.2.384a; “καί με κωτίλλοντα λ. τραχὺν ἐκφανεῖν νόον” Sol. ap. Arist.Ath.12.3.
II. rubbed or ground down, Dsc.1.3, al., PHolm.19.39; cf. “λειόω” 11: λεῖον, τό, fine sand, Inscr.Délos 500 A9 (iii B.C.). (Prob. λειϝος, cf. Lat. lēvis.）
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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