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μύδρος

μύδρος, a mass of red-hot metal

μύδρος, ὁ,
  • anvil of stone or metal, A. Fr. 307 (reading μύδρος) ; τύπτεσθαι μύδρος, i. e. as hard as an anvil, Antiph. 195.3; also the red-hot mass of iron on the anvil, Call. Dian. 49, Nic. Al. 50; μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν hold red-hot iron in the hands, as an ordeal, S. Ant. 264; μύδρον σιδήρεον κατεπόντωσαν Hdt. 1.165, cf. Arist. Ath. 23.5, IG 1(2).682 (prob.), Call. Fr. 209; Πακτώλιος μ. lump [of gold] from Pactolus, Lyc. 272; μ. διάπυρος a red-hot mass of stone or metal, of the sun, Anaxag. ap. D.L. 2.8, cf. 15, Archel. in Placit. 2.13.6, Ph. 1.623; ἀστέρος μ. Critias 25.35 D.; μ. διάπυροι the stones thrown out by Aetna, Arist. Mu. 395b23, cf. Str. 6.2.8; also, of red-hot stones or pieces of metal, thrown into a liquid to vaporize it, Hp. Mul. 2.134: generally, a stone, Orph. A. 896; ὁ ἀὴρ διάπυρος καὶ μ. γενόμενος dub. in Hp. Flat. 8; μύδρος κίων παχὺς ἄξυστος (sine interpr.) Gloss. (Not in Hom. exc. in a spurious line read by some after Il. 15.21.) (Cf. σμύδρος.)

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