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ἀνεμ-ώνη , ἡ,
A.poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria, Cratin.98, Pherecr.108.25, Theoc.5.92, Thphr.HP7.10.2; “ἀ. ἥμερος” Dsc.2.176.
2. ἀ. ἀγρία scarlet wind-flower, Anemone fulgens, ibid.; also called “ἀ. φοινικῆ” Crateuas Fr.4; “ἀ. λειμωνία” Thphr.HP6.8.1.
3. ἀ. ὀρεία, mountain wind-flower, Anemone blanda, ibid.; “αἷμα ῥόδον τίκτει, τὰ δὲ δάκρυα τὰν ἀ.” Bion 1.66.
II. metaph., ἀνεμῶναι λόγων flowers of speech (with suggestion of emptiness), Luc.Lex. 23.
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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    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 23
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