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Δωρ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ. fem. Adj. Dorian,
A.“ἐσθής” Hdt.5.88; “φωνή” Th.6.5, etc.: hence,
1. Δ. νᾶσος the Dorian island, of Aegina and Peloponnesus, Pi.N.3.3, S.OC696 (lyr.), etc.
2. (with or without γῆ) Doris, in Northern Greece, Hdt.8.31, Plu.Them.9, etc.
3. Δ. κόρα a Dorian damsel, E.Hec.934 (lyr.).
4. (sc. κοπίς) Dorian knife used at sacrifices, Id.El.819.
5. Δωρίς, = ἔχιον, Dsc.4.27.
b. = λεοντοπέταλον, Ps.- Dsc.3.96 (also δωριπτερίς ibid.).
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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