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Χα^ρών-ιος (later Χα^ρών-ειος ), ον,
A.of or belonging to Charon: hence,
1. X. θύρα the gate through which criminals were led to execution, Zen. 6.41, Suid.; also Χαρώνιον, τό, Poll.8.102, Hsch.
2. X. κλίμακες, a staircase in the theatre, leading up to the stage as if from the underworld, by which ghosts entered, Poll.4.132.
3. χαρώνια, τά, caverns filled with mephitic vapours, being looked on as entrances to the nether world, Str.12.8.17; sg., Id.14.1.11,44: χαρωνήϊα , prob. in Aret.SA1.7; in full, “χαρώνεια βάραθρα” Gal.17 (1).10; “χ. χωρία” Id.15.117.
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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    • Strabo, Geography, 12.8.17
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.1.11
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.7
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