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σής , ὁ, gen. σεός (as if fr. σεύς, which is given as nom. by Choerob. in Theod.1p.406H.); pl., nom. σέες Moer.p.339 P.; gen.
A.“σέων” Hermipp. 94, Ar.Lys.730, Ph.2.461 (not σεῶν, v. Choerob. l. c.); acc. “σέας” Luc.Ind.1:—the forms σητός, σῆτες, σητῶν, etc., were later, as in Men.540.5, Arist.HA557b3, Thphr.HP9.11.11, Ph.2.361 (and v.l. in 2.461), cf. Moer. l.c., etc.:—moth, [“χρυσὸν] οὐ ς. οὐδὲ κὶς δάπτει” Pi.Fr.222, cf. Ar. l. c., Str.13.1.54, Ev.Matt.6.19, Ev.Luc.12.33; attacking books, Luc. l. c.
2. metaph., σῆτες ἀκανθοβάται or -λόγοι, of the Grammarians, bookworms, AP11.322 (Antiphan.), 347 (Phil.).
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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