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ξῐφ-ίας — Liddell–Scott–Jones | Berean Institutes

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ξῐφ-ίας

Liddell–Scott–Jones: ξῐφ-ίας

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ξῐφ-ίας

Gloss

sword fish,

ξῐφ-ίας,ου,ὁ, (ξίφος)

A. sword fish,

Arist. HA 505a18 , Fr. 325 , Archestr. Fr. 40 ; cf.σκιφίας.

II. a kind ofcomet(from the shape), Plin. HN 2.89 .

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Arist. HA 505a18
Fr. 325
Archestr. Fr. 40
Plin. HN 2.89

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), public domain text. Unicode conversion by Giuseppe G. A. Celano, gcelano/LSJ_GreekUnicode, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Source via Perseus Project, Tufts University.

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