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Κόρινθος , ὁ and ἡ, Corinth, the city and country, ἀφνειὸς K. Il.2.570, Pi.Fr.122.2; ὀφρυόεντα K. Orac. ap. Hdt.5.92.β́, cf. Plb.4.67.8, Str.8.6.20; but ἡ K. Hdt.3.50, Th.1.25, etc.; εὐδαίμων K. Hdt.3.52; famed for its luxury and extravagance, whence prov. οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς εἰς K.
A.“ἐσθ᾽ ὁ πλοῦς” Ar.Fr.902a.
II. son of Zeus, reputed founder of Corinth, Paus.2.1.1: prov., Διὸς Κόρινθος, used of persons who are always repeating the same old story, Pi.N.7.105, cf. Ar.Ra. 443, Ec.828, Pl.Euthd.292e.
III. Adv. Κορινθόθι , at Corinth, Il. 13.664; Κορινθόθεν , from C., Michel 1087 (Olympia, V B.C.).
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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