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ἔρυ^μα , ατος, τό, (ἐρύω Β)
A.fence, guard, ἔ. χροός, of defensive armour, Il.4.137 ; of a cloak, Hes.Op.536 ; “θώρακας, ἐρύματα σωμάτων” X.Cyr.4.3.9 ; “ἔ. νιφετοῦ” a defence against.., Call.Fr.142 ; τὸ ἔ. τοῦ τείχεος the defence given by it, Hdt.7.223,225 ; “περιβαλέσθαι ἕρκος, ἔ. τῶν νεῶν” Id.9.96, cf. Th.8.40 ; ἔ. Τρώων the wall of Troy, S.Aj.467 ; “ἔ. λίθοις ὤρθωσαν” a breast-work, Th.6.66 ; ἔ. τειχίζεσθαι, τειχίζειν, Id.1.11, X.HG2.3.46 ; also of a river or trench used as a military defence, Id.An.2.4.22.
2. safeguard or defence, ἔ. χώρας, of the Areopagus, A.Eu.701 ; “παῖδας ἔ. δώμασι” E.Med.597 ; ἔ. πολεμίας χερός against.., ib.1322 ; “ἔ. χθονὸς ὄφρα βάλοιτο” Call.Hec.1.2.8.
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 (14):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 701
    • Euripides, Medea, 1322
    • Euripides, Medea, 597
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.223
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.96
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 536
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.137
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 467
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.11
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.66
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.4.22
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.3.9
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.3.46
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.40
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