γλαφυρός

From γλάφω (gláphō, “scrape, dig up, hollow”).

γλᾰφῠρός • (glăphŭrós) m (feminine γλᾰφῠρᾱ́, neuter γλᾰφῠρόν); first/second declension

1. (Epic) hollow, hollowed (epithet of caves and ships)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.453–454:

     Τοῖσι δ’ ἄφαρ πόλεμος γλυκίων γένετ’ ἠὲ νέεσθαι
     ἐν νηυσὶ γλαφυρῇσι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν.

     Toîsi d’ áphar pólemos glukíōn génet’ ēè néesthai
     en nēusì glaphurêisi phílēn es patrída gaîan.

     Immediately battle became sweeter to them than to return
     in hollowed ships to their dear homeland.

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.13–15:

     Τὸν δ’ οἶον, νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικός,
     νύμφη πότνι’ ἔρῡκε Καλυψώ, δῖα θεᾱ́ων,
     ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι, λιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι.

     Tòn d’ oîon, nóstou kekhrēménon ēdè gunaikós,
     númphē pótni’ érūke Kalupsṓ, dîa theā́ōn,
     en spéssi glaphuroîsi, lilaioménē pósin eînai.

     Him alone, longing for homecoming and his wife,
     the revered nymph Calypso, brightest of goddesses, detained
     in hollow caves, longing for him to be her husband.

2. polished
3. neat, delicate; subtle, exact, refined, elegant

• “γλαφυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλαφυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γλαφυρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γλαφυρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “γλαφυρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter