λᾰβύρινθ-ος[ῠ],ὁ ,
A. labyrinthormaze, a large building consisting of numerous halls connected by intricate and tortuous passages: in Egypt, Hdt. 2.148 , cf. Str. 17.1.37 ; in Crete, Call. Del. 311 , D.S. 1.61 : pl., σπήλαια καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς οἰκοδομητοὶ λαβύρινθοι
Str. 8.6.2
; name of a building at Rome, IG 14.1093 ; also at Miletus, Milet. 7.56 , Supp.Epigr. 4.446 (iii/ii B. C., pl.).
2. prov. of tortuous questions or arguments, ὥσπερ εἰς λ. ἐμπεσόντες, οἰόμενοι ἤδη ἐπὶ τέλει εἶναι περικάμψαντες πάλιν ὥσπερ ἐν ἀρχῇ . . ἀνεφάνημεν ὄντες
Pl. Euthd. 291b
; λαβυρίνθων σκολιώτερα
D.H. Th. 40
; λόγοι λαβυρίνθοις ὅμοιοι
Luc.
Bis Acc.
21 ; λόγων λαβύρινθοι
Id. Icar. 29
; of ant-hills, Gal. UP 1.3 ; of therete mirabile Galeni, Id. 5.608 ; of Lycophron's poem. AP 9.191 ; as name of a philosopher, Luc. Symp. 6 .