ὀλοίτροχος
ὀλοίτροχος, large stone, boulder
ὀλοίτροχος, Ep. ὀλοοίτροχος, ὁ,
- large stone, boulder, Ἕκτωρ ἀντικρὺ μεμαώς, ὀλοοίτροχος ὣς ἀπὸ πέτρης, ὅν τε κατὰ στεφάνης ποταμὸς χειμάρροος ὤσῃ ῥήξας . . ἔχματα πετρης Il. 13.137; = τὸ κυλινδρικὸν σχῆμα, Democr. 162; of the rounded muscles of an athleteʼs arm, ἕστασαν ἠΰτε πέτροι ὀλοίτροχοι, οὕστε κυλίνδων χειμάρρους ποταμὸς μεγάλαις περιέξεσε δίναις Theoc. 22.49; rolled down by besieged people upon their assailants, Hdt. 8.52, Orac. ap. eund. 5.92.βʹ, X. An. 4.2.3, Zos. 1.52. (The ancients derived it from ὀλοός ‘destructive’ or from ὅλος, and disagreed as to the breathing and accent, Sch.Il. l.c.)
ὀλοίτροχος, or ὁλοί-τροχος, ὁ,
εἴλω, volvo, τροχός
- 1a rolling stone, a round stone, such as besieged people rolled down upon their assailants, Hdt., Xen.; ὀλοοίτροχος in Il. and Orac. ap. Hdt.
- 2as adj., πέτροι ὁλοίτροχοι round stones, to which the muscles of an athleteʼs arm are compared, Theocr.