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εὐνοῦχος , ὁ, (εὐνή, ἔχω)
A.castrated person, eunuch, employed to take charge of the women and act as chamberlain (whence the name, ὁ τὴν εὐνὴν ἔχων), Hdt.3.130, al., Ar.Ach. 117, X.Cyr.7.5.60, etc.
2. of animals, Philostr.Her.1.3, Sch.Par.A.R.1.585.
3. of dates, without stones, Arist.Fr.267:—Pythag. name for θρίδαξ, Lycusap. Ath.2.69e.
II. as Adj., watching the bed, sleepless, “λαμπάδες εὐνούχοισιν ὄμμασιν” S.Fr.789.
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 (5):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.130
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.5.60
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 789
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.585
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 117
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