ἴδη

A. timber-tree, in pl., χώρη ὑψηλή τε καὶ ἴδῃσι συνηρεφής Hdt. 1.110; ὄρεα . . ἴδῃσι παντοίῃσι συνηρεφέα Id. 7.111, cf. 4.109,175: in sg., wood, ἐν τῇ ἴδῃ τῇ πλείστῃ in the thick of the wood, Id. 4.109; ἴδαν ἐς πολύδενδρον Theoc. 17.9; ἴδη ναυπηγήσιμος timber for . . , Hdt. 5.23: never in Att.: also in late Prose, Philostr. Dial. 2, VA 3.4(s.v.l.).

II. pr. n., Ἴδη, Ida, i.e. the wooded hill,

1. in the Troad, Il. 2.821, etc.: Adv. Ἴδηθεν, from Ida, 4.475; Ἴ. μεδέων ruling from I., 3.276:—Adj. Ἰδαῖος, α, ον (Aeol. Ἴδαος as pr.n., Sapph. Supp. 20a.3), Ζεύς Il. 16.605; ὄρεα 8.170, etc.; Ἰ. ῥίζα, a plant, Ruscus Hypoglossum, Dsc. 4.44: also Ἰδαία alone,= δάφνη Ἀλεξάνδρεια, ib.145: Ἰ. Δάκτυλοι, prop. 'dwarfs of the forest', Hes. Fr. 176, Pherecyd. 47 J., Hellanic. 89 J., etc.; but Ἰ. δάκτυλος is a name for one of the fingers, PMag.Lond. 46.455.

2. in Crete, D.P. 502, Paus. 5.7.6.