A.clad in scales, of reptiles, opp. λεπιδωτός (of fishes), Arist.PA692b11, cf. HA490b24, al.; also of the signs Scorpio and Pisces, Heph.Astr.1.1; θώραξ φ. a coat of mail of small metal plates overlapping one another, scale-armour, Posidipp.26.8, Arr.Tact.3.5 (pl.); “φ. χιτών” Hld.9.15, v. l. for στολιδ- in X.Cyr.6.4.2; “φ. φιάλη” ornamented with a pattern of scales, Inscr.Délos1414aii 20, cf. 1416 Ai 100 (ii B. C.); παροψίδες, ὀξύβαφα, BGU781 i6, ii14 (i A. D.); also of the catkins of the filbert, “μόρια φ.” imbricated, Thphr.HP3.5.6.
φολι^δ-ωτός , ή, όν,
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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