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Νῦσα , ης, ἡ,
A.Nysa, name of several mountains sacred to Dionysus, h.Hom.26.5, etc. :—Adj. Νύσιος [υ_], α, ον, h.Cer.17, S.Aj.699 codd. (lyr.) (ν., ὁ, = κισσός, Ps.-Dsc.2.179) ; Νυ_σήϊος , Ar.Ra.215 (lyr.) :— fem. Νυ_σα_ΐς , ΐδος, Str.12.8.17 ; Νυ_σαῖοι , οἱ, inhabitants of N., Id.15.1.8.
II. νύσα , ἡ, = δένδρον, Pherecyd.178 J.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 215
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 26 to Dionysus, 5
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 17
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 699
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.8
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.8.17
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