πλόος, ὁ,
Attic dialect contraction πλοῦς; plural πλοῖ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 304, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.7; _genitive_ πλῶν “OGI” 132.9 (Egypt, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; dative πλοῖς [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.83; _accusative_ πλοῦς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, a genitive singular πλοός, as if of third declension (compare χοῦς A), [[ “Periplus Maris Rubri [1st c.AD]” 62, “OGI” 572.21 (Myra, 2nd-3rd c.AD), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus Eph.1.14; _dative_ πλοΐ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 21.2: _plural_ πλόες 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.; _accusative_ πλόας “IGRom.” 4.841 (from Hierapolis)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (πλέω):—sailing, voyage, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.169, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (who always has the _disyllable_ form) 2.29, etc.; ἔσσεται Ἀγεάνακτι καλὸς π. ἐς Μιτυλάναν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.52; ναῶν π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.32; πλόον ὁρμαίνειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” [same place] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πλοῦν στεῖλαι, ποιεῖσθαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1045, “Ph.” 552 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔξω πλόου out of one's course, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.39; ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρας τέσσερας πλόος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῆκός ἐστι πλόος ἡμέραι τέσσερες its length is four days' sail, [[[prev. work] 158 ] Refs]; ἐκ τῶν πλόων when the voyage is done, [[ [prev. author] 1.185: _metaphorically_, διὰ τοῦ πλοῦ.. τῆς ζωῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 803b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 time or tide for sailing, ὡραῖος π., εἰαρινὸς π., [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 630, 678; καιρὸς καὶ π. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1450 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἡμῖν ἐγίγνετο, i.e. the wind was fair, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.24, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137; π. ἐστί τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 899, “IA” 92; παραπεσόντος π. τισί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.57.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλῷ χρήσασθαι to have a fair wind, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.3; πλόον δοκάζων 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 52: _plural_, καλλίστοις ἐχρήσαντο πλοῖς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.83. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]