__II.b ψιλαὶ Περσικαί Persian carpets, [[ 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 2 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; such a carpet is called ψιλή alone, [[ “PSI” 7.858.2 (3rd c.BC, _plural_), LXX.Josh.7.21 ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]; ψιλὴ πολύμιτος, Babylonicum, [[“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”] Refs]; ψιλή = aulaeum, tapeta, [[[prev. passage]] Refs]; compare ψιλόταπις.
__II.2 generally, bare, uncovered, ψ. ὡς ὁρᾷ νέκυν, i. e. without any earth over it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 426 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a horse which has thrown its rider, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 13.18 (from Parmeno). ] Refs]
__II.2.c stripped of appendages, naked, ψ. [τρόπις] the bare keel with the planks torn from it, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.421 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ψ. μάχαιραι swords alone, without other arms, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.58 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θάλαττα ψ. blank sea, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 25(43).50. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III frequently in Prose, as a military term, of soldiers without heavy armour, light troops, such as archers and slingers, opposed to ὁπλῖται, first in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.158, +others, frequently in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus, e. g. ὁπλίζει τὸν δῆμον, πρότερον ψ. ὄντα 3.27, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 3.3; ὁ ψ. ὅμιλος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.125 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ψιλοί or τὸ ψιλόν, opposed to τὸ ὁπλιτικόν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.17, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1321a7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψιλός, opposed to ὡπλισμένος, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1123: coupled with ἄσκευος, [prev. author] “OC” 1029; ψιλὸς στρατεύσομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 232; ψ. δύναμις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1321a13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ κοῦφαι καὶ αἱ ψ. ἐργασίαι work that belongs to unarmed soldiers,[[ [prev. work] 1321a25; ψ. χερσὶν πρὸς καθωπλισμένους 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 6.2: but ψ. ἔχων τὴν κεφαλήν] Refs 2nd c.AD+] bare-headed, without helmet, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψ. ἵππος a horse without housings, [[ [prev. author] “Eq.” 7.5 ] Refs]: unarmed, defenceless, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 953. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV λόγος ψ. bare language, i. e. prose, opposed to to poetry which is clothed in the garb of metre, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 239c, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.97K.; more frequently in _plural_, ψ. λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 669d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to τὰ μέτρα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1404b14, 33: but in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.54 ψ. λόγος] Refs 4th c.BC+] is a mere speech, a speech unsupported by evidence; and in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 165a ψιλοὶ λόγοι] Refs 5th c.BC+] are mere forms of argumentation, dialectical abstractions (so ψιλῶς λέγειν speak nakedly, without alleging proofs, [[ [prev. author] “Phdr.” 262c, compare “Lg.” 811e); τὰς πράξεις αὐτὰς ψιλὰς φράζοντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1438b27. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.2 ποίησις ψ. mere poetry, without music, i. e. [[ “Epic” poetry, opposed to “Lyric” ] Refs] (ἡ ἐν ᾠδῇ), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278c; so ἄνευ ὀργάνων ψ. λόγοι [prev. author] “Smp.” 215c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1447a29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψ. τῷ στόματι, opposed to μετ᾽ ὀργάνων, as a kind of μουσική, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 268b; λύρας φθόγγοι.. ψιλοὶ καὶ ἀμεικτότεροι τῇ φωνῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 922a16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ψ. φωνή the ordinary sound of the voice, opposed to singing (ἡ ᾠδική), [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 11. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__IV.3 ψ. μουσική instrumental music unaccompanied by the voice, opposed to ἡ μετὰ μελῳδίας, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1339b20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ψιλῷ μέλει διαγωνίζεσθαι πρὸς ᾠδὴν καὶ κιθάραν, of Marsyas, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.713d, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.100K.; so ψ. κιθάρισις καὶ αὔλησις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 669e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψιλὸς αὐλητής one who plays unaccompanied on the flute (compare ψιλοκιθαριστής), [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 145. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V mere, simple (compare supr. IV. 1), ἀριθμητικὴ ψιλή, opposed to geometry and the like, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 299e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕδωρ ψ., opposed to σὺν οἴνῳ, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψ. ἀναίρεσις mere removal, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 12 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ψ. ἄνδρες, i. e. men without women, [[ Antip.Stoic. 3.254:] Refs] —Oedipus calls Antigone his ψιλὸν ὄμμα, as being the one poor eye left him, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 866 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb ψιλῶς merely, only, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 15 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἕνεκα τοῦ ψ. εἰπεῖν for the purpose of merely saying, [[ Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” “Oxy.” 1086.65] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ψ. ὀνομάζειν call by the bare name (without epithet), [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.39J. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__VI.b of the letters ε and υ written simply, not as αι and οι, which represented the sounds in late Gr., μαθόντες τὰ διὰ τοῦ διφθόγγου ᾱῑ τυχὸν ἅπαντα, ἐδιδάχθημεν τὰ ἄλλα πάντα ψιλὰ γράφεσθαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Epim.” 162, compare “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 1.124: hence ἐψιλόν] Refs 2nd c.AD+] as name of the letter ε and ὐψιλόν as name of υ, which are first found in [[ Anonymus post “Etymologicum Gudianum” 679.6, 678.55, and Chrysoloras: ἐ ψιλόν] Refs] is falsa lectio in [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.5: but in πᾶσα λέξις ἀπὸ τῆς κ ¯ ε ¯ συλλαβῆς ἀρχομένη διὰ τοῦ ε ¯ ψιλοῦ γράφεται.. πλὴν τοῦ καί, κτλ. 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Epim.” 62, ε ¯ ψ. is not yet merely the name of the letter: for ὐψιλόν see entry ὖ, cf. Scholia Heph. p.93C. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__VI.2 of mute consonants, the litterae tenues, π κ τ, opposed to φ χ θ, ὅσαι γίγνονται χωρὶς τῆς τοῦ πνεύματος ἐκβολῆς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 804b10, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14, 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ψιλῶς καλεῖν pronounce with a littera tenuis for an aspirate, e. g., ῥάπυς for ῥάφυς, ἀσπάραγος for ἀσφάραγος, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.369b, compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 81.5, 12th c.AD: Tzetzes, Joannes Grammaticus “Historiarum variarum chiliades” 11.58. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
