Etym.: Commonly derived from οὖλος, ὅλος, as if οὐλαί or ὀλαί were whole grains, unground barleycorns. Others from ἀλέω, 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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