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ξεστός , ή, όν, (ξέω)
A.hewn, shaved, planed, of timber or objects made of it, ξ. οὐδός, τράπεζα, ἐλάται, ἐφόλκαιον, Od.18.33,17.93, 12.172,14.350 ; “ἵππος” 4.272 ; “ὀϊστός” Hes.Sc.133 ; “ἄκοντες” B.17.49 ; λόχος Ἀργείων, of the wooden horse, E.Tr.534 (lyr.) ; carved, ξόανα prob. in Orac. ap. Phleg.Fr.36.10J.
2. of stone, hewn, “ἐπὶ ξεστοῖσι λίθοις” Il.18.504, cf. Od.3.406 ; “λίθου ξεστοῦ καὶ ζῴων ἐγγεγλυμμένων” Hdt.2.124 ; “ἁρπάξαντες ἄγαλμ᾽ Ἀΐδα, ξ. πέτρον, ἔμβαλον στέρνῳ Πολυδεύκεος” Pi.N.10.67 ; of buildings, built of hewn stone, “ξ. αἴθουσαι” Il.6.243 ; “ξ. ἀγυιαί” E.HF782 (lyr.); ξ. τύμβος, τάφος, Id.Alc.836, Hel. 986 ; “τοῖχος” LXX Si.22.17, J.AJ15.11.5.
3. of horn, polished, Od. 19.566 ; of an elephant's ears, smooth, Opp.C.2.520.
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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