I. of Place, way, road, Il.12.168, 16.374, IG12.878, al. ; “ἱππηλασίη ὁ.” Il.7.340 ; “λαοφόρος” 15.682 ; “ὁ. ἁμαξιτός” Pi.N.6.54 ; ὁ. ἱερά, to Eleusis, Paus.1.36.3, cf. IG12.881 ; “βασιλικὴ ὁ.” PPetr.3p.65 (iii B.C.), PSI8.917.8 (i A. D.) ; ποταμοῦ ὁ. course, channel of a river, X.Cyr.7.5.16 ; “ὁ. ἀκοντίου” Antipho 3.4.5 : with expression of the direction, “ὁδὸς ἐς . . ” Od. 22.128 ; “ἡ ὁ. ἡ εἰς ἄστυ” Pl.Smp.173b ; “ἐπί . . ” Id.Phdr.272c ; τὴν εὐθὺς Ἄργους . . ὁ. leading straight to Argos, E.Hipp.1197 ; τῆς ἀληθείας ὁ. the way to truth, Id.Fr.289 ; cf. “νόστος” 1.1.
2. with Preps., “πρὸ ὁδοῦ” further on the way, forwards, Il.4.382 (cf. φροῦδος) ; later, = προὔργου, profitable, useful, πρὸ ὁ. εἶναι πρός τι to be helpful towards . . , Arist.Cael.292b9, cf. Metaph.1044a24 ; “πρὸ ὁδοῦ γέγονεν” Id.Pol.1338a35, cf. D.Prooem.34 ; “κατ᾽ ὁδόν” by the way, Hdt.1.41,111 ; κατὰ τὴν ὁ. along the road, Pl.Smp.174d, cf. infr. 111.3 ; ἐκ τῆς ὁ. on his road, Hdt.1.157 (but ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ὁ. 'the man in the street', Eup.25 D.) ; ἐν ὁδῷ on a road, Hdt.1.114 ; “ἐν τῇ ὁ. μέσῃ” Id.3.76 (but ἐν ὁ. καθελών Lexap.D.23.53, expld. by ἐν λόχῳ καὶ ἐνέδρᾳ by Harp. s.v. ὁδός) ; ὁδοῦ πάρεργον by the way, cursorily, Cic.Att.5.21.13,7.1.5, Gal.11.607.
3. ὁδός is freq. omitted, “ἐπορευόμην τὴν ἔξω τείχους” Pl.Ly. 203a ; ἡ ἐπὶ θανάτου, v. θάνατος ; cf. τηνάλλως.
II. as an Action, travelling, journeying, whether by land or water, journey, voyage, Od.2.285,8.150, etc.; “τρίποδας ὁ. στείχει” A.Ag.80 (anap.); “τὰν νεάταν ὁ. στείχουσαν” S.Ant.807(lyr.) ; “ὁ. ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή” Heraclit. 60 ; also, expedition, foray, “ὁδὸν ἐλθέμεναι” Il.1.151, cf. A.Th.714 ; τριήκοντα ἡμερέων . . ὁ. a thirty days' journey, Hdt.1.104, cf. 206 ; also “ὅσον ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ὁδόν” Id.3.5 (codd., ὁδοῦ edd.) ; “ἄστρων ὁδοί” E. El.728 (lyr.): as acc. cogn. with Verb of motion, τὴν ὁ. ἣν Ἑλένην περ ἀνήγαγεν by or in which . . , Il.6.292 ; οὐρανοῦ τέμνων ὁ. . . Ἥλιε, metaph. from a ship, E.Ph.1 (but in Prose ὁ. τέμνειν is to make a road, Th.2.100, Pl.Lg.810e) ; similarly where ὁ. is road, “μέσην ἔρχευ τὴν ὁ.” Thgn.220 ; “ὁ. χωρεῖν” Th.3.24 ; ἰόντες τὴν ἱρὴν ὁ., from Delphi, Hdt.6.34.
III. metaph., way or manner, “πολλαὶ δ᾽ ὁ. . . εὐπραγίας” Pi.O.8.13 ; “γλώσσης ἀγαθῆς ὁδός” A.Eu.989 (anap.) ; θεσπεσία ὁ. the way or course of divination, Id.Ag.1154(lyr.); “μαντικῆς ὁ.” S.OT311 ; “οἰωνῶν ὁδοῖς” Id.OC1314 ; “σῶν ὁ. βουλευμάτων” E.Hec.744 ; “γνώμης” Id.Hipp.290 ; λογίων ὁ. their way, intent, Ar.Eq.1015 ; “εὐτελείας ὁ.” Jul.Or.6.198d.
2. a way of doing, speaking, etc., “τῆσδ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ὁδοῦ διζήσιος” Parm.1.33, cf. 8.18 ; τριφασίας ἄλλας ὁ. λόγων ways of telling the story, Hdt.1.95, cf. 2.20,22 ; but τριφασίας ὁ. τρέπεται turns into three forms, Id.6.119 ; “ἄδικον ὁ. ἰέναι” Th.3.64 ; ὁ. ἥντιν᾽ ἰών by what course of action, Ar.Pl.506, cf. Nu.75 ; “ἢν ἔχομεν ὁ. λόγων” Id.Pax733 ; “μία δὴ λείπεται . . ὁ.” Pl.Smp.184b.
3. method, system, Id.Sph.218d, Arist.APr.53a2, al.; “ὁδῷ” methodically, systematically, Pl.R.533b, Stoic.2.39, etc. ; so “καθ᾽ ὁδόν” Pl.R.435a ; “τὴν διὰ τοῦ στοιχείου ὁ. ἔχων ἔγραφεν” Id.Tht.208b (cf. “διέξοδον” 208a).
4. of the Christian Faith and its followers, Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14. (Root sed- 'go', in Skt. sad-, ā-sad- 'come to', 'reach', OSlav. choditi 'go'.)
