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γνάθ-ος [α^], ἡ,
A.jaw, Prose form of γναθμός, also freq. in Poets, “γ. ἱππείη” Hom.Epigr.14.13; ἡ ἄνω, ἡ κάτω γ., Hp.Art.30, cf. Hdt. 2.68; καὶ γ. καὶ τὸ ἄνω τῆς γ. (where γνάθος, = lower jaw) Id.9.83; ἔπαγε γνάθον take your teeth to it! Ar.V.370; γνάθου δοῦλος a greedy fellow, E.Fr.282.5; also “ὄνου γ.” Eup.434: freq. in pl., Pl.Phdr. 254e, Arist.PA664a11.
2. cheek, in pl., Hp.VM19, Gal.2.424, etc.; “τὰς γ. φυσῶν” D.19.314, cf. Ruf.Onom.47, Gal.18(1).423.
3. metaph., “ποταμοὶ πυρὸς δάπτοντες ἀγρίαις γνάθοις” A.Pr.370, cf. Ch. 280; also τραχεῖα πόντου Σαλμυδησσία γ., of jagged rocks, Id.Pr. 726.
II. point of a wedge, ib.64.
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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