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φάλα^ρον [φα^], τό, (φάλος)
A.boss or disc, mostly in pl., once in Hom., βάλλετο δ᾽ αἰεὶ κὰπ φάλαρ᾽ εὐποίηθ᾽, of metal bosses on a helmet, Il. 16.106; “βασιλείου τιάρας φάλαρον πιφαύσκων” A.Pers.662(lyr.).
II. pl., cheek-pieces of a horse's head-stall (expld. by “παραγναθίδες” Hsch., “τὰ τῶν γνάθων σκεπάσματα” Phot.), Hdt.1.215, E.Supp.586, X.HG 4.1.39, Ptol.Euerg.9J.; but φάλαρα is a gloss in “ἀμπυκτήρια φ. πώλων” S.OC1069 (lyr.); cf. Lat. phalerae.
2. bandages for the cheek, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.44, Sor.Fasc.18.
III. metaph., ornaments, Plu.2.528a, D.Chr.78.26.
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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