δέμας
demas
bodily frame
Appears 42 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
δέμας, τό, (δέμω)
‹ All lexicon entries bodily frame, usu. of man, (v. infr.); rarely of other animals, Od. 10.240, O. 1.20; prop. the living body, but also of a corpse, νεκρὸν δ. 106, cf. Ant. 205, Or. 40, 1066, Sch. Ven. Il. 1.115.— uses it only in acc. sg., usu. abs., μικρὸς δ. small in stature, Il. 5.801; ἄριστος εἶδός τε δ. τε Od. 8.116; δέμας ἐϊκυῖα θεῇσιν Il. 8.305; δέμας ἀθανάτοισιν ὁμοῖος Od. 8.14; οὐ . . ἐστι χερείων οὐ δέμας οὐδὲ φυήν Il. 1.115, cf. Od. 5.212; δέμας καὶ εἶδος ἀγητός Il. 24.376, cf. Od. 18.251; χαρίεσσα δέμας Th. 260; Κλύμενον . . ἀμώμητον δ. 5.147: nom. in later poets, as OC 110, 501, etc.: dat. δέμαϊ Pae. 6.80.
2. in Lyr. and Trag. as a periphrasis, Ἀστερίας δ., the island of Delos, ib. 5.42; κτανεῖν μητρῷον δ. Eu. 84; οἰκετῶν δ. Tr. 908; Ἡράκλειον δ. HF 1037 (lyr.); οἰνάνθης δ., i.e. the vine-shoot, Fr. 255.4; ἀστερωπὸν οὐρανοῦ δ. v.l. in 25.33 D.; Δάματρος ἀκτᾶς . . δ., i.e. bread, Hipp. 138: in later Ep., ὕλης δ. L. 238.
3. Com., = πόσθη, 173.10.
II. as Adv., δέμας πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο in form or fashion like burning fire, Il. 11.596, cf. 17.366.