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γείτων , ονος, ὁ, ἡ,
A.neighbour, borderer, “γείτονες ἠδὲ ἔται Μενελάου” Od.4.16, cf. 9.48, Hes.Op.346, etc.; opp. σύνοικος, Pl.Lg.696b; “γ. τινός” E.IT1451, X.An.3.2.4; τινί ib.2.3.18; ἐκ τῶν γ. or ἐκ γειτόνων from or in the neighbourhood, Ar.Pl.435, etc.; “οἷον ἐκ γ. φωνὴν θηρευόμενοι” Pl.R.531a; “λύχνον ἐκ τῶν γ. ἐνάψασθαι” Lys.1.14; “ἐκ γ. τῆς πατρίδος μετοικεῖν” Lycurg.21, cf. Str.10.4.12; rarely “ἀπὸ γ.” D.S.13.84; ἐν γειτόνων (sc. οἴκοις）“ οἰκεῖν” Men.Pk.27, Luc.Philops.25, etc.; “τὸ χωρίον τὸ ἐν γ.” D.53.10: metaph., ἐν γ. εἶναι to be of like kind, Luc.Icar.8: prov., “μέγα γείτονι γείτων” Alcm.50, cf. Pi.N.7.87.
II. as Adj., neighbouring, bordering, πόλις, πόντος, Id.P.1.32, N.9.43; χώρα, πύλαι, ῥοαί, A.Pers.67 (lyr.), Th.486, S.Aj.418 (lyr.): c. dat., “Ἀθήναις γ. πόλις” E.Ion294; “νεκροῖσι γ. θᾶκοι” Id.HF1097; also in Prose, “ἡ γ. πόλις” Pl.Lg.877b; “οἱ γ. βάρβαροι” Jul.Or.2.72c: neut. “γεῖτον” Hsch.: neut. pl. “γείτω” IG2.814aB36.
III. γίτονας (sic): τὰ δύο αἰδοῖα, Hsch.
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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