A.thicket, copse, esp. as the lair of wild beasts, “ἐν λόχμῃ πυκινῇ κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς” Od.19.439; “λόχμας ὕπο κυανέας” Pi.O.6.40, cf. P.4.244; “ἐχῖνος ὥς τις ἐν λόχμῃ κεῖσαι πεσών” S.Ichn.121: in pl., λόχμαισι δοκεύσαις lying in wait in the coppice, Pi. O.10(11).30; “μασχάλαι λόχμης δασύτεραι” Ar.Ec.61, cf. Lys.800: prov., μία λ. δύο ἐριθάκους οὐ τρέφει Sch.Ar.V.922: also in Prose, Arist.HA615a17, Ael.NA13.14, Creophyl. ap. Ath.8.361d; “λόχμη τῶν θηρίων” Jul.Mis.338c.
λόχμ-η , ἡ, (λέχομαι)
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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