; soἶβις ψ. τὴν κεφαλήν without feathers, baldon the head, Hdt. 2.76 ;hairless,of the foetus of a hare, Id. 3.108 ;ψ. τὰ περὶ τὴν κεφαλήν,of the ostrich, Arist. PA 697b18 .
b. ψιλαὶ ΠερσικαίPersiancarpets,
Callix. 2 ; such a carpet is calledψιλήalone, PSI 7.858.2 (iii B. C., pl.), LXX Jo. 7.21 ;ψιλὴ πολύμιτος, Babylonicum,
2. generally,bare, uncovered, ψ. ὡς ὁρᾷ νέκυν,i. e. without any earth over it, S. Ant. 426 ; of a horse which has thrown its rider, AP 13.18 (Parmeno).
b. c. gen.,bare of, separated from, ψ. σώματος οὖσα [ἡ ψυχή] Pl. Lg. 899a ; τέχναι ψ. τῶν πράξεων
Id. Plt. 258d
; ψ. ὅπλων
Id. Lg. 834c
; ἱππέων
X. Cyr. 5.3.57
; θηρία μεμονωμένα καὶ ψ. τῶν Ἰνδῶν
Plb. 11.1.12
.
c. stripped of appendages, naked, ψ. [τρόπις] thebarekeel with the planks torn from it, Od. 12.421 ;ψ. μάχαιραιswordsalone, without other arms,etc., X. Cyr. 4.5.58 ;θάλαττα ψ. blanksea, Aristid. Or. 25(43).50 .
III. freq. in Prose, as a military term, ofsoldiers without heavy armour, light troops,such as archers and slingers, opp.ὁπλῖται,first in Hdt. 7.158 , al., freq. in Th. , e. g. ὁπλίζει τὸν δῆμον, πρότερον ψ. ὄντα
IV. λόγος ψ. barelanguage, i. e.prose,opp. to poetry which is clothed in the garb of metre, Pl. Mx. 239c , Phld. Mus. p.97K. ; more freq. in pl., ψ. λόγοι
Pl. Lg. 669d
; opp.τὰ μέτρα,
Arist. Rh. 1404b14 , 33 : but in D. 27.54
ψ. λόγοςis amerespeech, a speechunsupported by evidence;and in Pl. Tht. 165a
Antip.Stoic. 3.254 :—Oedipus calls Antigone hisψιλὸν ὄμμα,as beingthe one pooreye left him, S. OC 866 .Adv.
ψιλῶς merely, only,
Plu. Per. 15
;ἕνεκα τοῦ ψ. εἰπεῖνfor the purpose ofmerelysaying, Sch. Il. Oxy. 1086.65 ;ψ. ὀνομάζεινcall by thebarename (without epithet), Phld. Vit. p.39J.
VI. Gramm. of vowels, ψ. ἦχος without the spiritus asper,
Demetr. Eloc. 73
; ψ. πνεῦμα
A.D. Adv. 148.9
, D.T. Supp. 674.15 ; ψιλῶς λέγεσθαι
A.D. Pron. 57.3
.
b. of the lettersεandυ written simply,not asαιandοι,which represented the sounds in late Gr., μαθόντες τὰ διὰ τοῦ διφθόγγου ᾱῑ τυχὸν ἅπαντα, ἐδιδάχθημεν τὰ ἄλλα πάντα ψιλὰ γράφεσθαι
Hdn. Epim. 162
, cf. An.Ox. 1.124 : henceἐψιλόνas name of the letterεandὐψιλόνas name ofυ,which are first found in Anon. post Et.Gud. 679.6 , 678.55 , and Chrysoloras:ἐ ψιλόνisf. l. in
