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θάλασσα [θα^], Att.θα?́λα^μ-ττα IG12.57 (but
A.“θάλασσα” 22.236（338/7 B.C.)), ἡ: —sea, Il.2.294, etc.: freq. of the Mediterranean sea, ἥδε ἡ θ. Hdt.1.1, 185, 4.39, etc.; ἡ παρ᾽ ἡμῖν θ. Pl.Phd.113a; “ἡ θ. ἡ καθ᾽ ἡμᾶς” Plb.1.3.9; ἡ ἐντὸς καὶ κ. ἡ. λεγομένη θ. Str.2.5.18; ἡ ἔσω θ. Arist.Mu.393b29; ἡ ἔξω θ., of the Ocean, Id.Mete.350a22; ἡ Ἀτλαντικὴ θ. Id.Mu.392b22; ἡ μεγάλη θ. Plu.Alex.73; of a salt lake, Arist.Mete.351a9; “ἐς θάλασσαν τὴν τοῦ Εὐξείνου πόντου” Hdt.2.33; “πέλαγος θαλάσσης” A.R.2.608; κατὰ θάλασσαν by sea, opp. πεζῇ, Hdt.5.63; opp. κατὰ γῆς, Th.7.28 codd.; κατά τε γῆν καὶ κατὰ θ. Pl.Mx.241a; “χέρσον καὶ θ. ἐκπερῶν” A.Eu.240; τῆς θ. ἀνθεκτέα ἐστί one must engage in maritime affairs, Th.1.93; οἱ περὶ τὴν θ. sea-faring men, Arist.HA598b24, cf. Pol.1291b20; “θ. καὶ πῦρ καὶ γυνὴ—τρίτον κακόν” Men.Mon.231, cf.264: metaph., κακῶν θ a sea of troubles, A.Th.758 (lyr.); ὁ Κρὴς τὴν θ. (sc. ἀγνοεῖ), of pretended ignorance, Suid.
2. sea-water, ἔστω ἐν χαλκῷ ἡ θ. Hp.Coac.427, cf. Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.3.121d, Moschio ib.5.208a, Plb.16.5.4, Dsc.2.83.
3. well of salt water, said to be produced by a stroke of Poseidon's trident, in the Acropolis at Athens, Hdt.8.55; “θ. Ἐρεχθηΐς” Apollod.3.14.1.
4. channel, LXX 3 Ki.18.32.
5. χαλκῆ θ. laver, ib.2 Ki.8.8.
6. θ. κοίλη wooden theatre, Paus.Gr.Fr.208 (= Com.Adesp.864).—For the Lacon. form σάλασσα, v. θαλασσομέδων.
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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