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σφαιρ-ίον , τό, Dim. of σφαῖρα, Pl.Ep.312d; oak-
A.gall, Thphr.HP3.7.4; ivy-berry, Dsc.2.179; globular catkin of the πλάτανος, Id.1.79, Cleom.1.10 fin.; but, cylindrical catkin of λεύκη, Dsc.1.81.
II. molecule, atom, Democr. ap.Arist.de An.409a12.
III. round ball or token, entitling the bearer to a present specified upon it, D.C.61.18.
IV. the end of the nose, Poll.2.80, Heliod. ap. Orib.45.26.1, 48.32.3, Ruf.Onom.38, Sor. Fasc.11.
V. pill, Lycus ap.Orib.8.43.1, Archig.ib.8.46.16, Gp.7.13.2.
VI. sugar-plum, sweetmeat, POxy.920.9,11 (ii/iii A.D.).
VII. name of a plaster, Aët.15.36, Paul.Aeg.7.17.
VIII. dub. sens. in Inscr.Délos 1432 Bai 14 (ii B.C.).
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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