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φρύγα^νον [υ_], τό, (φρύγω)
A.dry stick; mostly in pl., firewood, Hdt. 4.62, Ar.Av.642, Th.3.111, X.An.4.3.11, SIG1027.13 (Cos, iv/iii B. C.), Act.Ap.28.3; “φρυγάνοις καὶ λίθοις περιφράξαντες” Arist.HA 603a9: Com., Φρύγες ἐστὶ καινὸν δρᾶμα τοῦτ᾽ Εὐριπίδου . . ᾧ καὶ Σωκράτης τὰ φρύγαν᾽ ὑποτίθησι prob. in Telecl.40: sg. only in collect. sense = τὰ φρύγανα, μαντικῶς τὸ φ. τίθεσθαι Ar.Pax1026; “τὸ φ. ἐπικαίουσι” Plu.2.553c.
II. undershrub, opp. δένδρα, θάμνος, πόα, defined as τὸ ἀπὸ ῥίζης πολυστέλεχες καὶ πολύκλαδον, Thphr.HP1.3.1.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 642
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    • New Testament, Acts, 28.3
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