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ἀφετ-ήριος , α, ον, (ἀφίημι)
A.for letting go, ἀ. ὄργανα engines for throwing stones, etc., J.BJ3.5.2, cf. 5.6.3.
2. ἀφετηρία (sc. γραμμή), ἡ, starting-point of a race, CIG2758iiiD7 (Aphrodisias), Sch.Ar.Eq.1156: hence ἀ. Διόσκουροι, whose statues adorned the race-course, Paus.3.14.7; “ἀ. ἕρμα” AP9.319 (Philox.): metaph., “ἀφετήριον πρὸς μάθησιν” S.E.M.1.41; “ἀ. ἡ ῥητορική” Phld.Rh.1.223S.
3. ἀφετηρία: ἀρχή, ἡγεμονία, Hsch.
4. ἀφετήριον (sc. πλοίων), τό, outlet of a harbour, Str.11.2.4.
5. gate of a sluice, PLond.3.1177.291 (ii A.D.).
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):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 1156
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 3.5.2
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.6.3
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.14.7
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.2.4
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