TAS LIQOUS

Carl Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 6 15:59:04 EDT 1999


On 08/06/99, ""Wieland Willker" <willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de>" wrote:
> In line 26 of Pap. Egerton Bell/Skeat supplement:
> 
> BASTASANTES TAS] LIQOUS ...
> 
> Why do they use TAS and not TOUS? Is LIQOS feminine at times?

The evidence seems to indicate as much; this is LSJ at the Perseus web 
site, s.v. LIQOS:

II. lithos, hê, twice in Hom., Hom. Il. 12.287, Hom. Od. 19.494, just like 
masc., also in Theoc.7.26, Bion Fr.1.2: later mostly of some special stone, 
as the magnet is called Magnêtis l. by E.Fr.567 (but hê lithos simply in 
Democr.11k, Arist.Ph. 267a2, cf. v.l. ti=Arist. de An.405a20); also Ludia 
l. by S.Fr.800 (but in B.Fr. 10 J. Ludia l. = touchstone); Hêrakleia l. by 
Plat. Ion 533d, Epicur.Fr. 293; so of a touchstone, Plat. Gorg. 486d; hê 
diaphanês l. a piece of crystal used for a burning-glass, Aristoph. Cl. 
767, cf. Luc.Alex.21; chutê l. was perh. a kind of glass, and so an older 
name for hualos , Epin.1.8 (the same thing as the artêmata lithina chuta in 
Hdt. 2.69; cf. tên hualon . . hosa te lithôn chuta eidê kaleitai Plat. Tim. 
61c); l. = precious stone is fem. in Hp.Nat.Mul.99, IG22.1421.92, au=IG 
1460.21, but masc. in Hdt. 2.44, etc.; in the sense of marble mostly masc., 
leukos l. IDEM=Hdt. 4.87 (simply lithos au=Hdt. 1.164), S.Fr.330 (leukoi l. 
is opp. petrinoi l. Supp.Epigr.4.446.8 (Didyma)); Parios l. Pind. N. 4.81, 
Hdt. 3.57; Tainarios l. Strab. 8.5.7; l. Thasios, Aiguptios, etc., Paus. 
1.18.6, etc.; konchitês IDEM=Paus. 1.44.6; konchuliatês Xen. Anab. 3.4.10; 
but Paria l. Theoc.6.38, Luc.Am.13; cf. luchnias, -itês; pôrinos l. tufa, 
Hdt. 5.62.
2. collectively, pephuke lithos . . aphthonos, ex hou . . Xen. Ways 1.4. 
III. grave-stone (fem.), Call.Epigr.8.1.



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