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κέρμα , ατος, τό, (κείρω)
A.fragment, κέρματα θηρείων μελέων dub.l. in Emp.101.1; “τὰ κ. τοῦ ἡνωμένου ἡνωμένα” Dam.Pr.107, cf. Suid.; but mostly,
2. coin, “ἐγκάψας τὸ κ. εἰς τὴν γνάθον” Alex.128.7; “μικροῦ πρίασθαι κ. τὴν ἡδονήν” Eub.67.7, cf. Amphis 5, Antiph.131; collectively, cash, Theopomp.Com.30, Arr.Epict.2.10.14, al., Cat.Cod. Astr.7.244; esp. of copper money, opp. silver (ἀργύριον), PGen.77.5 (ii/iii A.D.): freq. in pl., “μικρὰ κ.” Ar.Av.1108, cf. Pl.379, Eub.84.1; διδοὺς κέρματα Test. ap. D.21.107, cf. Theopomp.Hist.89a, UPZ81 iv 20, 145 xi 71 (ii B.C.), Alciphr.1.2, AP5.44 (Cillactor).
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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