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λαιός

λαιός, blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus

λαιός2, on the left

Could not find λαιοῖσιν in Logeion dictionaries.

λαιοῖσιν masculine dative plural, neuter dative plural of λαιός2

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λαιός (A), ὁ,
  • a kind of thrush, prob. the blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus, Arist. HA 617a15, Ant.Lib. 19.3.
λαιός (B), ά, όν,
  • left, λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε (sc. χειρί) Tyrt. 15.3; λαιᾶς χειρός on the left hand, A. Pr. 714; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί E. HF 159; λαιοῖσι on the left, Parm. 17; ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον Arat. 160, cf. Heliod. ap. Stob. 4.36.8; οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες (sc. μέρος) D.S. 13.99; ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα (Dor.) IG 14.1721.3; τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως Philostr.Jun. Im. 4. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses ἀριστερός: also in later Prose, τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί Prov. ap. Plb. 38.10.9, cf. Jul. Or. 2.57d, etc.) (Orig. λαιϝός, cf. Lat. laevus, Slav. lèvǔ: in Hsch. we have λαίβα, i.e. λαίϝα, = ἀσπίς, because borne on the left arm; cf. λαῖφα, λαῖτα, λαφός.)

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