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φρούρ-ιον , Dor. φρώριον Inscr.Cret.1 xvi 17.15 (Lato, ii B. C.), τό,
A.fort, citadel, A.Eu.919 (lyr.), IG12.93.17, etc.; “ἀντὶ τοῦ πόλις εἶναι φρούριον κατέστη” Th.7.28: esp. hill-fort, as distd. from a fortified town, Id.2.18, 3.18,51, Lys.12.40, X.Cyr.1.4.16, etc.; “βίον ὡς οἰκτρὸν ἐξαντλοῦσιν οἱ τὰ φ. τηροῦντες” Men.74; “τὰ φ. καὶ τὰ ὅρια τῆς Ἀττικῆς” IG22.1028.22.
2. prison, of the body, Pl.Ax.366a.
II. garrison, of a place, A.Pr.801 (where Sch. also expl. by thing to be guarded against); “φυλασσόμεσθα φρουρίοισι” E.Or.760 (troch.); πόλεως φ., of the Areopagites, A.Eu.949 (anap.).
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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