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δειρή , ἡ, Att. δέρη A.Ag.329,875, etc.; Aeol. δέρα Sapph.Supp. 23.16(v. infr.):—
A.neck, throat, Il.11.26, etc.; “τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς δ.” ornaments, Hdt.1.51.
2. collar, Poll.2.235.
II. in pl., gully, glen, Pi.O. 3.27, 9.59: but in sg., = δειράς, prob. in Hermesian.7.54. (The original form is preserved in Arc. δερϝά BCH39.55 (Orchom.): Aeol. δέρρη is coined by EM262.57 as etym. of δέρρις: Hsch. has δέρα: ὑπερβολὴ ὄρους, οἱ δὲ τὰ σιμὰ τῶν ὀρῶν by confusion with δειράς. Κοίλᾳ δέρᾳ, place-name in Inscr.Olymp.46.30. Prob. from root of ζέρεθρον, βιβρώσκω.）
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 329
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.51
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.26
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