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ἄμπελος , ἡ, any climbing plant with tendrils, esp.
A.grape-vine, Vitis vinifera (“ἄ. οἰνοφόρος” Dsc.4.181; ἄ.τῆς Ἴδης is a variety, V.v. apyrena, grape-currant, Thphr.HP3.17.4), Hom. (not in Il. exc. in Adj. ἀμπελόεις), etc.; “πυροὶ καὶ κριθαὶ καὶ ἄμπελοι” Od.9.110, cf.133, Alc.44, Hdt. 4.195, etc.; “ἄ. καὶ ἐλάαν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἀκρόδρυα” Thphr.HP4.4.11; ἄ. τὴν περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν κόπτοντες, in collective sense (cf. ἵππος, ἡ), Th.4.90; of wine, “ἀμπέλου δρόσος” Pi.O.7.2; “ἀμπέλου παῖς” Id.N.9.52.
2. “ἄ. ἀγρία” wild vine, Vitis silvestris, Dsc.4.181, 5.2, Plin.HN23.19:—also = ἄ. λευκή, Thphr.9.14.1, 9.20.3, Gal.14.186.
3. “ἄ. λευκή” bryony, Bryonia cretica, Dsc.4.182, Gal.11.826 (but λευκὴ ἄ. white grape, Thphr.CP1.20.5).
4. “ἄ μέλαινα” black bryony, Tamus communis, Dsc.4.183, Gal.11.827.
5. “ἄ. ποντία” wrack, Fucus volubilis, Thphr.HP4.6.9.
II. vineyard, Ael.NA11.32.
III. engine for protecting besiegers, mantlet, Apollod.Poliorc.141.7.
IV. measure of length, = 20 παλαισταί, Hero *Deff.131.
V. = αἰγιαλός (Cyren.), Hsch.
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 (5):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.195
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.110
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.90
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.19
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 11.32
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