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λόγχ-η (A), ἡ,
A.spear-head, Hdt.7.69; “λ. δορός” S. Tr.856, E.Tr.1318 (both lyr.): also in pl. of a single spear, the point with its barbs, τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον the shaft alike with the spear-head, Hdt.1.52, etc.; “λόγχαι δ᾽ ἐκαυλίζοντο καὶ ξυστὴ κάμαξ” Ar.Fr.404, cf. X.Cyn.10.3 (where the shaft is ῥάβδος）; οἱ κνώδοντες τῆς λόγχης the barbs of the spear-head, ib.16.
2. lance-shaped birth-mark, Trag.Adesp.84.
II. lance, spear, javelin, Batr.129; “χαλκέας λόγχας ἀκμᾷ” Pi.N.10.60, cf. S.Tr.512 (lyr.), etc.: metaph., “ὀμμάτων ἄπο λόγχας ἵησιν” Id.Fr.157; λόγχας ἐσθίων, prov. of a bragging coward, a 'fire-eater', Timocl.12.5.
III. troop of spearmen, “ξὺν ἑπτὰ λόγχαις” S.OC1312, cf. Ant.119 (lyr.); “μυρίαν ἄγων λόγχην” E.Ph.442; “λόγχης ἀριθμῷ πλείονος κρατούμεναι” Id.Fr. 286.12; “χωρεῖτε, λόγχη” Id.Cret.45.
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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