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ἀναξυρίδες , ίδων, αἱ,
A.trousers worn by eastern nations, Hdt.5.49, 7.61, X.An.1.5.8; by the Scythians, Hdt.1.71, cf. Hp.Aër.22; by the Sacae, Hdt.3.87, etc.: sg., Luc.Hist.Conscr.19, Philostr.VA 1.25.
II. sg. ἀναξυρίς , ἡ, = ὀξαλίς, Dsc.2.114, Sch.Nic.Th. 838. (Derived from ἀνασύρεσθαι by Eust.22.8, but really Persian. Wrongly expl. as a head-covering by Poll.7.58.)
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.71
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.87
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.61
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.5.8
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 19
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.25
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