ἠλίβατος

A. high, steep, always in Hom. as epith. of πέτρη or πέτραι, Il. 15.273, al., cf. Hes. Th. 675, 786, Thgn. 176, Pi. O. 6.64, A. Supp. 352 (lyr.), E. Supp. 80 (lyr.), Theoc. 26.10, etc.; ὄρος, ἄκρη, ἐρίπναι, A.R. 2.169, 361, 1248; of the Olympian throne of Zeus, Ar. Av. 1732; of trees, h.Ven. 267 (so prob. in Hes. Sc. 422).—Also in X. and later Prose, πέτραι ἠ. An. 1.4.4; τόποι Plb. 4.41.9; πέτρος Str. 17.1.50; δένδρα Agatharch. 97; πῦρ Hanno Peripl. 16; σταυρός Epigr. ap. Plu. Flam. 9.

II. deep, abysmal, ἄντρῳ ἐν ἠ. Hes. Th. 483; Τάρταρος ἠ. Stes.83; ἠ. ὑπὸ κευθμῶσι E. Hipp. 732 (lyr.); πελάγεσσιν ἐν ἠ. Opp. H. 3.171: metaph., κακὸν ἠ. Damox. 2.22; εὐηθεια Porph. Abst. 1.12.

III. in later Poets (perh. from a misunderstanding of [Κύκλωψ] ἠ. πέτρην ἐπέθηκε θύρῃσιν Od. 9.243), huge, enormous, μέλεα Opp. H. 5.66; σχεδίη Q.S. 11.312; so in Prose, κῦμα, σκιαί, Plu. 2.163c,935f. (Etym. dub., cf. ἄλιψ· πέτρα, Hsch.)