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γραῖα , late Poet. nom. γραίη , Dor. γραία (only gen. sg. in Hom.), ἡ,
A.old woman, Od.1.438, S.Tr.870, E.Tr.465, al.: as Adj., γραῖαι δαίμονες, of the Eumenides, A.Eu.150 (lyr.), cf. 69.
2. as Adj., of things, old, “γραίας ἐρείκης” Id.Ag.295; “γραίας ἀκάνθης” S.Fr.868; “γραῖαν ὠλένην” E.Ion1213; “γραίᾳ χερί” Id.Hec.877; “γραιᾶν πηρᾶν” Theoc.15.19; “σταφυλὴ γραίη” raisins, AP6.231 (Phil.).
3. Γραῖαι, αἱ, the Graiae, with hair grey from their birth, Hes.Th.270, prob. in A.Fr.262.
II. = γραῦς 11, scum or skin which forms over boiled milk, etc., Arist.Pr.893b32.
III. folds of skin below the navel, Ruf. Onom.99, Poll.2.170.
IV. = γραῦς 111, sea-crab, Epich.61.
V. = κάρδοπος, 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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    • Euripides, Ion, 1213
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 465
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 270
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