δέμας

A. bodily frame, usu. of man, Hom. (v. infr.); rarely of other animals, Od. 10.240, Pi. O. 1.20; prop. the living body, but also of a corpse, νεκρὸν δ. Batr. 106, cf. S. Ant. 205, E. Or. 40, 1066, Sch. Ven.Il. 1.115.—Hom. uses it only in acc. sg., usu. abs., μικρὸς δ. small in stature, Il. 5.801; ἄριστος εἶδός τε δ. τε Od. 8.116; δέμας ἐϊκυῖα θεῇσιν Il. 8.305; δέμας ἀθανάτοισιν ὁμοῖος Od. 8.14; οὐ . . ἐστι χερείων οὐ δέμας οὐδὲ φυήν Il. 1.115, cf. Od. 5.212; δέμας καὶ εἶδος ἀγητός Il. 24.376, cf. Od. 18.251; χαρίεσσα δέμας Hes. Th. 260; Κλύμενον . . ἀμώμητον δ. B. 5.147: nom. in later poets, as S. OC 110, 501, etc.: dat. δέμαϊ Pi. Pae. 6.80.

2. in Lyr. and Trag. as a periphrasis, Ἀστερίας δ., the island of Delos, ib.5.42; κτανεῖν μητρῷον δ. A. Eu. 84; οἰκετῶν δ. S. Tr. 908; Ἡράκλειον δ. E. HF 1037 (lyr.); οἰνάνθης δ., i.e. the vine-shoot, S. Fr. 255.4; ἀστερωπὸν οὐρανοῦ δ. v.l. in Critias 25.33 D.; Δάματρος ἀκτᾶς . . δ., i.e. bread, E. Hipp. 138: in later Ep., ὕλης δ. Orph. L. 238.

3. Com., = πόσθη, Pl.Com. 173.10.

II. as Adv., δέμας πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο in form or fashion like burning fire, Il. 11.596, cf. 17.366.