4.4.1
Logeion
Perseus analysis of ὀμίχλη:
ὁμίχλη: fem nom/voc sg (attic epic ionic)
LSJ entry
(NB. This dictionary headword is a guess.)
ὀμίχλη
ὀμίχλη
(
ὁμ-
Eust. 117.33
and
v.
infr.
;
a
form
ὄμιχ-λα
is
condemned
by
Hdn. Philet.p.445
P.),
ἡ
,
A.
mist,
fog
(not
so
thick
as
νέφος
or
νεφέλη,
Arist. Mete. 346b33
,
cf.
Mu. 394a19
),
Hom.
only
in
Il.
;
εὖτʼ
ὄρεος
κορυφῇσι
Νότος
κατέχευεν
ὀμίχλην
3.10
;
so
Thetis
rises
from
the
sea,
ἠΰτʼ
ὀμίχλη
1.359
;
ὁ.
καὶ
δρόσος
Ar. Nu. 330
;
κονίης
ὀμίχλην
Il. 13.336
;
ὀμίχλη
ἐγένετο
X. An. 4.2.7
,
etc.
:
metaph.,
ὄσσοις
ὁμίχλα
προσῇξε
πλήρης
δακρύων
A. Pr. 145
(lyr.).
2.
cloud-like
darkness,
gloom,
κατὰ
νυκτὸς
ὀ.
AP 5.228
(
Maced.
),
cf.
Orph. A. 521
,
etc.
3.
the
steam
of
cookery,
Mnesim. 4.64
.
(Cf.
Lith.
miglà
‘mist.)