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φλοιός , ὁ, (φλέω)
A.bark of trees, esp. smooth bark (such as one can cut one's name on, Theoc.18.47, Call.Fr.101), Il.1.237, Emp.81, Hdt.4.67, X.Cyn.9.18, Thphr.HP1.5.2, Sor.1.62; eaten in famine, Plb.7.1.3, Plu.Ant.17: pl., Call.l.c., Str.11.8.7, 15.1.60.
b. husk or skin of certain fruits, Plu.2.684a, Aët.12.1.
2. membrane enclosing the eggs of certain animals, Arist. HA558a28.
3. tissue from which spiders spin their webs, ib.623a32.
4. metaph., of superficial or useless coverings, redundancy, ὁ Λακωνικὸς “λόγος οὐκ ἔχει φλοιόν” Plu.2.510f; φωνὴν . . φλοιοῦ μεστήν Crantorap. D.L.4.27; γυμνὸς τῶν φλοιῶν stripped of all outsides, M.Ant.12.2, 8; “περὶ τὸν φ. ἀσχολεῖσθαι” Luc.Herm.79.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.67
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.237
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 9.18
    • Polybius, Histories, 7.1.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.8.7
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.60
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 17
    • Lucian, Hermotimus, 79
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 12.2
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 8
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