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ὁδός

hodos

way, road

Appears 71 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ὁδός, ἡ (οὐδός once in Hom., Od. 17.196): I. of Place, way, road, Il. 12.168, 16.374, IG 12.878, al. ; ἱππηλασίη ὁ. Il. 7.340 ; λαοφόρος 15.682 ; ὁ. ἁμαξιτός Pi. N. 6.54 ; ὁ. ἱερά, to Eleusis, Paus. 1.36.3, cf. IG 12.881 ; βασιλικὴ ὁ. PPetr. 3p.65 (iii B.C.), PSI 8.917.8 (i A. D.) ; ποταμοῦ ὁ. course, channel of a river, X. Cyr. 7.5.16 ; ὁ. ἀκοντίου Antipho 3.4.5 : with expression of the direction, ὁδὸς ἐς . . Od. 22.128 ; ἡ ὁ. ἡ εἰς ἄστυ Pl. Smp. 173b ; ἐπί . . Id. Phdr. 272c ; τὴν εὐθὺς Ἄργους . . ὁ. leading straight to Argos, E. Hipp. 1197 ; τῆς ἀληθείας ὁ. the way to truth, Id. Fr. 289 ; cf. νόστος I.1. 2. with Preps., πρὸ ὁδοῦ further on the way, forwards, Il. 4.382 (cf. φροῦδος) ; later, = προὔργου, profitable, useful, πρὸ ὁ. εἶναι πρός τι to be helpful towards . . , Arist. Cael. 292b9, cf. Metaph. 1044a24 ; πρὸ ὁδοῦ γέγονεν Id. Pol. 1338a35, cf. D. Prooem. 34 ; κατʼ ὁδόν by the way, Hdt. 1.41, 111 ; κατὰ τὴν ὁ. along the road, Pl. Smp. 174d, cf. infr. III.3 ; ἐκ τῆς ὁ. on his road, Hdt. 1.157 (but ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ὁ. ‘the man in the street’, Eup. 25 D.) ; ἐν ὁδῷ on a road, Hdt. 1.114 ; ἐν τῇ ὁ. μέσῃ Id. 3.76 (but ἐν ὁ. καθελών Lex ap.D. 23.53, expld. by ἐν λόχῳ καὶ ἐνέδρᾳ by Harp. s.v. ὁδός) ; ὁδοῦ πάρεργον by the way, cursorily, Cic. Att. 5.21.13,7.1.5, Gal. 11.607. 3. ὁδός is freq. omitted, ἐπορευόμην τὴν ἔξω τείχους Pl. Ly. 203a ; ἡ ἐπὶ θανάτου, v. θάνατος ; cf. τηνάλλως. II. as an Action, travelling, journeying, whether by land or water, journey, voyage, Od. 2.285,8.150, etc.; τρίποδας ὁ. στείχει A. Ag. 80 (anap.); τὰν νεάταν ὁ. στείχουσαν S. Ant. 807(lyr.) ; ὁ. ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή Heraclit. 60 ; also, expedition, foray, ὁδὸν ἐλθέμεναι Il. 1.151, cf. A. Th. 714 ; τριήκοντα ἡμερέων . . ὁ. a thirty days’ journey, Hdt. 1.104, cf. 206 ; also ὅσον ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ὁδόν Id. 3.5 (codd., ὁδοῦ edd.) ; ἄστρων ὁδοί E. El. 728 (lyr.): as acc. cogn. with Verb of motion, τὴν ὁ. ἣν Ἑλένην περ ἀνήγαγεν by or in which . . , Il. 6.292 ; οὐρανοῦ τέμνων ὁ. . . Ἥλιε, metaph. from a ship, E. Ph. 1 (but in Prose ὁ. τέμνειν is to make a road, Th. 2.100, Pl. Lg. 810e) ; similarly where ὁ. is road, μέσην ἔρχευ τὴν ὁ. Thgn. 220 ; ὁ. χωρεῖν Th. 3.24 ; ἰόντες τὴν ἱρὴν ὁ., from Delphi, Hdt. 6.34. III. metaph., way or manner, πολλαὶ δʼ ὁ. . . εὐπραγίας Pi. O. 8.13 ; γλώσσης ἀγαθῆς ὁδός A. Eu. 989 (anap.) ; θεσπεσία ὁ. the way or course of divination, Id. Ag. 1154(lyr.); μαντικῆς ὁ. S. OT 311 ; οἰωνῶν ὁδοῖς Id. OC 1314 ; σῶν ὁ. βουλευμάτων E. Hec. 744 ; γνώμης Id. Hipp. 290 ; λογίων ὁ. their way, intent, Ar. Eq. 1015 ; εὐτελείας ὁ. Jul. Or. 6.198d. 2. a way of doing, speaking, etc., τῆσδʼ ἀφʼ ὁδοῦ διζήσιος Parm. 1.33, cf. 8.18 ; τριφασίας ἄλλας ὁ. λόγων ways of telling the story, Hdt. 1.95, cf. 2.20,22 ; but τριφασίας ὁ. τρέπεται turns into three forms, Id. 6.119 ; ἄδικον ὁ. ἰέναι Th. 3.64 ; ὁ. ἥντινʼ ἰών by what course of action, Ar. Pl. 506, cf. Nu. 75 ; ἢν ἔχομεν ὁ. λόγων Id. Pax 733 ; μία δὴ λείπεται . . ὁ. Pl. Smp. 184b. 3. method, system, Id. Sph. 218d, Arist. APr. 53a2, al.; ὁδῷ methodically, systematically, Pl. R. 533b, Stoic. 2.39, etc. ; so καθʼ ὁδόν Pl. R. 435a ; τὴν διὰ τοῦ στοιχείου ὁ. ἔχων ἔγραφεν Id. Tht. 208b (cf. διέξοδον 208a). 4. of the Christian Faith and its followers, Act.Ap. 9.2, 22.4, 24.14. (Root sed- ‘go’, in Skt. sad-, ā-sad- ‘come to’, ‘reach’, OSlav. choditi ‘go’.)
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