τυφλός, ή, όν,
blind, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.139, compare “hymnus ad Apollinem” 172 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], frequently in other writers; τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 454 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. Ἄρης, Πλοῦτος, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 838, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.19 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ὄψις, ὀφθαλμοί, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 697, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 518c, etc.: with _genitive_, τ. τινός] Refs 5th c.BC+] blind to.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.12, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but τ. τῆς προνοίας lacking vision of the future, [[ [prev. author] 2.975c] Refs]; τὰ τ. τοῦ σώματος, i. e. one's back, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ τυφλῷ γε δῆλον even a blind man can see that, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 55o d; for 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 6, see at {κωφός} II.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of the limbs of the blind, τ. πούς [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1050, “Ph.” 834, etc. (compare τυφλόπους); χείρ [prev. work] 1699 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [βάκτρον], τοξεύματα, [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 744, “HF” 199. ] Refs]
__3 metaphorically of the other senses and the mind, τ. ἦτορ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.23; τυφλὸς τά τ᾽ ὦτα, τόν τε νοῦν, τά τ᾽ ὄμματ᾽ εἶ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 371; τὴν τέχνην ἔφυ τ. [prev. work] 389. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, τ. ὄλβος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 776; ἡ φύσις ἄνευ μαθήσεως τυφλόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.2b; τῇ τύχῃ.., ἣν τυφλὴν λοιδοροῦμεν [prev. work]98a; τ. ἔδραμε πᾶσα τρόπις “Anthologia Graeca” 9.289 (1st c.AD: Bassus, Lollius Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]