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φα^λακρ-ός , ά, όν, (φαλός, ἄκρος)
A.baldheaded, Anacr.68, Hdt. 3.12, 4.23, Hp.Aph.6.34, Pl.R.495e, Sammelb. 4637.16 (ii B. C.), etc.; prop. bald on the crown, Arist.HA518a27; “φ. τὴν κεφαλήν” Luc.Luct. 16; “πρόσωπον φαλακρόν” E.Cyc.227; “οἱ φαλακροί” Ar.Nu.540 (lyr.), Pax767 (lyr.), etc.: prov. of labour in vain, “φαλακρῷ κτένας δανείζειν” Plu. Prov.26; “φαλακρὸν τίλλειν” Suid.
2. like a bald head, blunt, knobbed, φ. σιδήρια of cauterizing irons, Hp.Art.11; στρογγύλωσις ib.61; φαλακρότερος (v.l. -ώτερος）“ εὐδίας” Sophr.108.
3. bald spot, “ἔχειν φαλακρόν τινα” Anon.Incred.17.
II. ὁ φ. name of a fallacy, D.L.2.108. [φα^λα^κρός E.l.c., Ar.Nu.540.]
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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