γάλα
gala
milk
Appears 7 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
γάλα [⏑⏑], τό, gen. γάλακτος (also γάλακος, dat. γάλακι Hec. Fr. 260.57 Pf. [updated ref.], prob. in 108.18, cf. An.Ox. 4.338), also τοῦ γάλα indecl., 238: dat. pl. γάλαξι Lg. 887d. (For γλακτ-, cf. Lat. lac for glact):—
‹ All lexicon entries milk, ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν Il. 4.434, cf. Od. 4.88, etc.; εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ., Pers. 611, Ch. 898; ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη, at the breast, HF 1266, Ti. 81c; ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι Lg. l.c. (so metaph., ἐν σπαργάνοις καὶ γάλαξιν εἶναι, of art, VH 8.8); διδόναι γάλα Cyn. 7.4; ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος to fill full of milk, 24.3: metaph., οἶνος, Ἀφροδίτης γ. Fr. 596.
2. ὀρνίθων γ. (ὄρνιθος γάλα, = ὀρνιθόγαλον, Fr. 71.5, 2.144), prov. of rare and dainty things, V. 508, Av. 734, Mcn. 936; τὸ λεγόμενον, σπανιώτατον πάρεστιν ὀρνίθων γ. 9, cf. Intr.Arat. 4 (expld. by 22 as white of egg, cf. Sch. Merc.Cond. 13).
3. ἀγαθὸν γ. a good wet-nurse, Epigr. 51; οὐδʼ εἰ γ. λαγοῦ εἶχον . . καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον 123.
II. milky sap of plants, HP 6.3.4, etc.
III. the milky way, 11, Mete. 345a12, 476; but ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος Phaen. p.4M., 5.69.