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σάλος [α^], ὁ,
A.tossing motion, of an earthquake, “χθονὸς νῶτα σεισθῆναι σάλῳ” E.IT46; esp. rolling swell of the sea, πόντου ς., πόντιος ς., Id.Hec.28, IT1443: pl., πόντιοι ς. Id.Or.994 (lyr.).
2. open roadstead, roads, opp. a harbour, ἐν σάλῳ στῆναι, = σαλεύειν 11.2; “ἀλίμενον μὲν σάλους δὲ ἔχον” Plb.1.53.10; “οὔτε λιμὴν οὔτε ς. ἐπ᾽ ἀγκύρας” D.S.3.44, cf. Agatharch.92, Peripl.M.Rubr.7 (pl.), 55.
II. of ships or persons in them, tossing on the sea, “ἐκ πολλοῦ ς. εὕδοντ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀκτῆς” S. Ph.271; “σάλον εἶχεν ἡ θάλασσα” Plu.Luc.10; καρηβαρεῖν ὑπὸ ς. Luc. Herm.28; “ἐν τοσούτῳ ς. ναυτιάσαντα” Id.Tox.19: metaph. of the ship of the state, “τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος θεοὶ πολλῷ ς. σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν” S.Ant.163; “πόλις . . σαλεύει κἀνακουφίσαι κάρα βυθῶν ἔτ᾽ οὐχ οἵα τε φοινίον σάλου” Id.OT24; “ἐν σάλῳ πόλις γενομένη” Lys.6.49; ἔσχε . . ὁ ἀγὼν ὑποτροπὴν καὶ ς. began to waver, Plu.Alex.32, cf. Aem.18; cf. “σαλεύω” 11.1.
2. distemper, restlessness, perplexity, LXX Si.40.5, Gal.9.816; “τῆς ψυχῆς” Max.Tyr.1.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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