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ἄρκυ^ς (ἅρκ- Et.Gen., cf. Paus.Gr.Fr.73), υος, ἡ: pl., nom. and acc., ἄρκυες, -υας, Att. acc. ἄρκυς (v. infr.):—
A.net, hunter's net, A.Ag.1116, Ch.1000: more freq. in pl., “ἐξ ἀρκύων πέπτωκεν” Id.Eu.147 (lyr.); “ἀρκύων μολεῖν ἔσω” E.Cyc.196; ἄρκυς ἱστάναι to set nets, X.Cyn.6.5; διωκόμενον τὸν λαγὼ εἰς τὰς ἄρκυς ib.10; “πλεξάμενος ἄρκυς” Ar.Lys. 790: metaph., ἄρκυες ξίφους the toils, i. e. perils, of the sword, E.Med. 1278.
2. woman's hair-net, Hsch.
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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