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ἀνά-λημμα , ατος, τό,
A.that which is used for repairing or supporting; sling for a wounded limb, Hp.Off.23.
II. any high erection or embankment, esp. of substructures or retaining-walls, SIG2587.20, SIG290 (Delph.), 813A5 (Delph.), IG11.163A38 (Delos), cf. 165.33, D.S.17.71: pl., Id.20.36, D.H.3.69, IG4.203.21; “τὸ ἀ. τῆς πόλεως Δαυίδ” LXX 2 Ch.32.5; ἀ. ὑψηλὸν περιβόλου ἱεροῦ ib.Si.50.2.
III. sun-dial, CIG2681, Vitr.9.7.7.
IV. = μέρος τι τοῦ ἥπατος, 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 (6):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.71
    • Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, 32.5
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 23
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 50.2
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.36
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.69
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