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ἀφίδρ-υ_μα , ατος, τό,
A.thing set up, esp. image of the gods (cf.Suid. s.v.), IG22.1046.13, Inscr.Prien.112.115, D.H.2.22, Str.12.5.3, Plu. Num.8, etc.; “χρυσοῦς μόσχος, τὸ Αἰγυπτίων ἀ.” Ph.1.256.
2. shrine, temple, Cic.Att.13.29.1(2), Str.6.2.5, 16.4.4.
II. copy taken from such image or shrine, D.S.15.49; “ἱερὸν Ἀσκληπιοῦ ἀ. τοῦ ἐν Τρίκκῃ” Str.8.4.4.
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 (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.29.1
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.49
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.4
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.5.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.2.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.4.4
    • Plutarch, Numa, 8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.22
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