Etym.: Commonly derived from ou)=los, o(/los, as if ou)lai/ or o)lai/ were whole grains, unground barleycorns. Others from a)le/w, to grind, as Lat. mola from molere.

Sense

1. barley-corns, barley-groats

Examples

• "οὐλαὶ δὲ καὶ μώλωπεσ ἐπὶ τῶν παθῶν ἑκάστου τοῖσ μὲν μᾶλλον ἐμμένουσι τοῖσ δ’ ἧσσον. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 31:6)
• καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ σπληνὸσ δὲ κακοπραγοῦντοσ ἴκτεροι μελάντεροι καὶ τῶν ἑλκῶν αἱ οὐλαὶ μέλαιναι. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 950)
• Ἢν ὁκοθενοῦν ὀστέον ἀφιστῆται ἢ καυθὲν ἢ πρισθὲν ἢ ἄλλῳ τῳ τρόπῳ, τῶν ἑλκέων τούτων αἱ οὐλαὶ κοιλότεραι γίνονται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 7.1)
• χλανίδεσ δ’ οὖλαι καταβέβληνται, θώρακα δ’ ἅπασ ἐμπερονᾶται, κνημὶσ δὲ περὶ σφυρὸν ἀρθροῦται,2 βλαύτησ δ’ οὐδεὶσ ἔτ’ ἔρωσ λευκῆσ, ῥάβδον δ’ ὄψει τὴν κοτταβικὴν ἐν τοῖσ ἀχύροισι κυλινδομένην, μάνησ δ’ οὐδὲν λατάγων ἀίει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 6 2:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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