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ἁρπεδόν-η , ἡ,
A.cord, for binding or snaring game, X.Cyr.1.6.28, AP9.244 (Apollonid.).
2. yarn of which cloth is made, Hdt.3.47, Aristias 2 (ap.Poll.7.31), AP6.160 (Antip. Sid.); silk-worm's thread, Paus.6.26.8; bow-string, AP5.193 (Posidipp. or Asclep.).
II. ἁρπεδόναι: τῶν ἀμαυρῶν ἄστρων σύγχυσις (i.e. band of stars connecting Pisces), Hsch., cf. Vitr.9.5.3.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.47
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.26.8
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.6.28
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