A.string, chain, or cluster of things hanging one from the other, as of beads or the links of a chain, Pl.Ion533e; of bats, Od.24.8; “νεοττιῶν” Arist.HA559a8; κριβανωτῶν, ἰσχάδων, Ar.Pl.765, Lys.647 ; “μελῶν” Id.Ra.914 ; “ἁμαξῶν” X.Cyr.6.3.2 ; ἐνθουσιαζόντων, χορευτῶν, Pl.Ion533e, 536a ; “γραμματιδίων” Thphr.Char.6.8 ; perh. of a chain of reasoning, Polystr.p.9 W., cf. Phld.Rh.1.186 S., Gal.4.698; “ἐρώτων” Anacreont.13.11.
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