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βλέφα^ρον , Dor. γλέφα^ρον , τό:—mostly in pl. (as always in Hom.),
A.eyelids, “βλέφαρ᾽ ἀμφὶ καὶ ὀφρύας” Od.9.389, al.; of sleep, “φίλα βλέφαρ᾽ ἀμφικαλύψας” 5.493; ὕπνος ἀπὸ βλεφάροιϊν (dual) Il.10.187; “ὕπνον ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔχευεν” Od.20.54, al.; “παῦρον ἐπὶ γλεφάροις ὕπνον ἀναλίσκοισα” Pi.P.9.24; γλεφάρων ἁδὺ κλάϊστρον ib.1.8; “βλέφαρα κέκλῃται” S.Fr.711; β. συμβαλεῖν, κοιμᾶν ὕπνῳ, A.Ag.15, Th. 3; of weeping, “δάκρυ χαμαὶ βάλεν ἐκ βλεφάροιϊν” Od.17.490, cf. 23.33; of death, “λύειν β.” S.Ant.1302: in Prose, Antipho Soph. 81a, Pl. Ti.45d, PPetr.3p.23 (iii B. C.): rarely in sg., E.Or.302; “β. τὸ ἄνω καὶ κάτω” Arist.HA491b19, cf. PA657b14.
II. in pl., eyes, “βλεφάρων κυανεάων” Hes.Sc.7 (where the fem. Adj. points to a nom. ἡ βλέφαρος); freq. in Trag., “σκοτώσω β. καὶ δεδορκότα” S.Aj.85, cf. Tr. 107 (lyr.): in sg., of the sun, “ἁμέρας β.” Id.Ant.104 (lyr.); of the curtain of darkness at nightfall, “νυκτὸς ἀφεγγὲς β.” E.Ph.543.
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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