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κυ^νηγ-έσιον , τό,
A.hunting-establishment, pack of hounds, Hdt.1.36, X.Cyn.10.4; also, pack of wolves hunting together, opp. λύκοι μονοπεῖραι, Arist.HA594a31.
II. hunt, chase, ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἐξιέναι, πρὸς τὸ κ. προσιέναι, X.Cyn.6.11; ἀπιέναι ἐκ τοῦ κ. ib.26, cf. 7.11: in pl., E.Hipp. 224 (anap.), Isoc.7.45, X.Cyn.3.11, 6.4, Plu.Alex.40: metaph., “κ. τὸ περὶ τὴν Ἀλκιβιάδου ὥραν” Pl.Prt.309a; “παρακαλεῖσθαί τινα ἐπὶ τὸ κ.” Id.La. 194b.
2. = κυνήγιον 2, CIG2511 (Cos), 4157 (Sinope).
III. that which is taken in hunting, game, X.Cyn.6.12.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 224
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.36
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 45
    • Plato, Laches, 194b
    • Plato, Protagoras, 309a
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.4
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 3.11
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.11
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.12
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.4
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 7.11
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 40
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