γάλα [??], τό,
genitive γάλακτος (also γάλακος, dative γάλακι [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hecale” 1.4.4, probably in 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 108.18, compare “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 4.338), also τοῦ γάλα] Refs 5th c.BC+] indeclinable, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 238: _dative_ _plural_ γάλαξι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887d. (For γλακτ-] Refs 5th c.BC+], cf. Latin lac for glact):—milk, ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.434, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.88, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὔποτον γ., εὐτραφὲς γ., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 611, “Ch.” 898 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη, at the breast, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1266, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 81c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι [[[prev. author] “Lg.” [prev. cited] (so _metaphorically_, ἐν σπαργάνοις καὶ γάλαξιν εἶναι, of art, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 8.8); διδόναι γάλα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος to fill full of milk, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.3: _metaphorically_, οἶνος, Ἀφροδίτης γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 596. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 ὀρνίθων γ. (ὄρνιθος γάλα, ={ὀρνιθόγαλον}, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 71.5, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.144), proverbial of rare and dainty things, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 508, “Av.” 734, Mcn. 936; τὸ λεγόμενον, σπανιώτατον πάρεστιν ὀρνίθων γ. 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 9, cf. Ach. Tat. “Intr.Arat.” 4 (explained by 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 22] Refs 5th c.BC+] as white of egg, compare [[Scholia 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 13). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]