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γαιή-οχος (also γαιη-οῦχος , Hsch.), Dor. γαιάοχος , ον, γαιάϝοχος IG5(1).213 (Sparta, v B. C.):—epith. of Poseidon,
A.earth-moving, earth-carrying, Il.13.43, al., A.Th.310(lyr.), cf. S.OC1072(lyr.): Γαιάοχος , abs., Il. 13.125, Pi.O.13.81, and so Γαιάϝοχος (v. supr.): also in pl., Γαάοχοι, name of a contest, IG5(1).296.11 (Sparta).
2. “ὠκεανὸς γ.” App.Anth.3.209.
II. protecting the country, “γαιάοχε παγκρατὲς Ζεῦ” A.Supp.816(lyr.); “γαιάοχόν τ᾽ Ἄρτεμιν” S.OT160(lyr.).
2. = ἠπειρώτης, Hsch. (In signf. 1 from γαῖα and ϝεχ-: ϝοχ-, cf. ὄχεα, Lat. veho, Skt. váhati, Germ. be-wegen, etc. In signf. 11 from ἔχω (q. v.).)
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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