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φίλημ-α [ι^], ατος, τό, Dor. φίλα_μα Mosch.1.5:—
A.kiss, A.Fr.135, X. Mem.1.3.12, etc.; “φ. δοῦναι” E.IA679,1238; “φ. παρὰ γένυν τιθέντα σόν” Id.Supp.1154; “πατρὶ . . διὰ φιλημάτων ἰών” Id.Andr.416; of kisses as prizes in a game, “παίζωμεν περὶ φιλημάτων” Pl.Com.46, cf. S.Fr.537, Eub.3.4; as a symbol of Christian love, 1 Ep.Cor.16.20.
II. pl., cosmetics, Ach.Tat.2.38 (fort. φαρμάκων).
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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