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ἔδα^φος , εος, τό,
A.bottom, foundation, base of anything, “τῆς κατασκευῆς τὰ ἐ.” Th.1.10; ἔ. νηός bottom of a ship, Od.5.249; “ἔ. πλοίου” D.32.5, cf. Pherecr.12; ἔ. ποταμοῦ, τῆς θαλάττης, X.Cyr.7.5.18, Arist.HA534a11; [ποτηρίου] Pherecr.143.2.
2. ground-floor, pavement, “οἴκου” Hdt.8.137; καθελεῖν ἐς ἔ. raze to the ground, Th. 3.68; “τὸ ἔ. ὁμαλίσασι” IG11(2).161 A57 (Delos, iii B.C.); “ἔπεσον εἰς τὸ ἔ.” Act.Ap.22.7; “ἀπὸ ἐδάφους μέχρι παντὸς ὕψους” CPR95.17 (iii A. D.), etc.
3. ground, soil, περὶ τοῦ τῆς πατρίδος ἐδάφους ἀγωνίζεσθαι for our country's soil, Aeschin.3.134, cf. D.26.11 (pl.); ἐχθρὸς τῷ τῆς πόλεως ἐδάφει, of a mortal foe, Id.8.39, 10.11; “ὀκρυόειν ἔ.” Eleg.Alex. Adesp. 1.7; soil, viewed in regard to its quality, Thphr.CP2.4.1 (pl.), 4.11.8: pl., ἐδάφη lands and tenements (incl. houses), Is.11.42, IG 2.780, PTeb.302.10 (i A.D.); also, masses of earth, Epicur.Ep.2p.48U.
4. text of a manuscript, opp. margin (μέτωπον), Gal.16.837, 18(2).864.
b. manuscript, Id.16.468 (s.v.l.).
5. background of puppet-theatre, Hero Aut.30.1, al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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