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ἄγνος , ἡ, Att. ὁ,
A.= λύγος, chaste-tree, the branches of which were strewed by matrons on their beds at the Thesmophoria, Vitex Agnus-castus, h.Merc.410, Chionid.2, cf. Trag.Adesp.396, Pl.Phdr. 230b, Hp.Int.30, Arist.H A627a9, Nic.Th.71, Dsc.1.103. (Associated with the notion of chastity from the like ness of its name to ἁγνός.)
II. ἄγνος, ὁ, name of a fish, = καλλιώνυμος Diph.Siph. ap.Ath.8.356a (sine acc. cod., ἁγνός Kaib.).
III. a kind of bird, Sch.Pl.Phdr.l.c., Suid.
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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