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ἴδη

ἴδη, a timber-tree

ἴδη2, sheen of metal

ἴδη [ῑ], Dor. ἴδα, ἡ,
  • timber-tree, in pl., χώρη ὑψηλή τε καὶ ἴδῃσι συνηρεφής Hdt. 1.110; ὄρεα . . ἴδῃσι παντοίῃσι συνηρεφέα Id. 7.111, cf. 4.109, 175: in sg., wood, ἐν τῇ ἴδῃ τῇ πλείστῃ in the thick of the wood, Id. 4.109; ἴδαν ἐς πολύδενδρον Theoc. 17.9; ἴδη ναυπηγήσιμος timber for . ., Hdt. 5.23: never in Att.: also in late Prose, Philostr. Dial. 2, VA 3.4 (s.v.l.).
    • II pr. n., Ἴδη, Ida, i.e. the wooded hill,
      • 1 in the Troad, Il. 2.821, etc.: Adv. Ἴδηθεν, from Ida, 4.475; Ἴ. μεδέων ruling from I., 3.276:—Adj. Ἰδαῖος, α, ον (Aeol. Ἴδαος as pr.n., Sapph. 44.3 L.-P.), Ζεύς Il. 16.605; ὄρεα 8.170, etc.; Ἰ. ῥίζα, a plant, Ruscus Hypoglossum, Dsc. 4.44: also Ἰδαία alone, = δάφνη Ἀλεξάνδρεια, ib. 145: Ἰ. Δάκτυλοι, prop. ‘dwarfs of the forest’, Hes. Fr. 176, Pherecyd. 47 J., Hellanic. 89 J., etc.; but Ἰ. δάκτυλος is a name for one of the fingers, PMag.Lond. 46.455.
      • 2 in Crete, D.P. 502, Paus. 5.7.6.
ἴδη, ἡ,
  • sheen of metal, etc., v.l. for σίδη in Philostr. Im. 1.28, 2.32.

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