ἐλαία,
Attic dialect ἐλάα, ἡ, olive-tree, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, especially in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, 11.590, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἱερὴ ἐ[[. 13.372, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.13, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.55, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 701 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἡμέρη ἐλαίη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.82 (opposed to ἀγρία ἐ. or κότινος) φέρεσθαι ἐκτὸς τῶν ἐλαῶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] to run beyond the olives, which stood at the end of the Athenian racecourse, i.e. to go too far, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 995 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], ubi see Scholia; of the Indian Olea cuspidata, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 variety of δάφνη [[ 111, [prev. work] 4.7.2, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.3.6. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II olive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 550, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 372c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.262, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.119, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] —Acc. to Grammars ἐλάα was the proper form in this sense, ἐλαία in the first; but ἐλάα is simply the Attic dialect form,[[compare “IG” 12.94.33, 2.476.21, 1055.36 (also “PHal.” 1.98 (3rd c.BC), etc.). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III naevus on the skin, Melamp.[[ p.508F. ] Refs]
__IV ={δίφρου Κυρηναϊκοῦ μέρος}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus [In ἐλάα] Refs 5th c.AD+], the penultimate is long, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 360.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 550, “Pax” 578, “Av.” 617, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ἐλᾰῶν in [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.3 (where perhaps ἐλῶν—ἐλᾶς is acknowledged by 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 162, and found in “PRyl.” 97.7 (2nd c.AD), ἐλᾶν in 130.11 (1st c.AD)—should be restored), and ᾰ in ἐλάη, “Anthologia Graeca” 4.2.12 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus), 6.102 ([prev. author]).] ] Refs 1st c.AD+]