Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Ζζ , ζῳό-πωλις , ζωστήρ

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A.a warrior's belt, prob. of leather covered with metal plates, “ὅθι ζωστῆρος ὀχῆες χρύσειοι σύνεχον” 4.132; δαιδάλεος, παναίολος, ib.135,186; “φοίνικι φαεινός” 7.305, cf. Hdt.9.74, S.Aj.1030; of an Amazon, Pi.Fr.172: in Od., a swineherd's belt, 14.72, cf. Theoc.7.18,26.17.

II. later,= ζώνη, a woman's girdle, Paus.1.31.1: metaph., of the encircling sea, “νῆσοι . . , ἃς . . ζ. Αἰγαίου κύματος ἐντὸς ἔχει” AP9.421 (Antip. Thess.); ὠκεανὸς ἀτλαντικὸς ζ. Secund.Sent.2.

III. anything that goes round like a girdle:

1. stripe marking certain height in the ship, Hld.1.1.

2. grass-wrack, Posidonia oceanica, Thphr.HP4.6.2, Plin.HN13.135.

3. = ζώνη 111.4, ib.26.121.

IV. name of a cape on the west coast of Attica, Hdt.8.107, Hyp.Fr.67, etc.

2. epith. of Apollo at Zoster, AB261(sed leg. Ζωστήριος).

V. ζωστῆρες Ἐνυοῦς, of warriors, Call.Ap.85.

VI. name of a πηγή in the Chaldaean system, Dam.Pr.96.

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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