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γραῦς , gen. γρα_ός, ἡ: Ion. γρηῦς , γρηός, voc. γρηῦ: poet. also γρηΰς , voc. γρηΰ: barbarous voc. γρᾶο in Ar.Th.1222: nom. pl.
A.“γρᾶες” Ar.Fr.350, Timocl.25: acc. “γραῦς” E.Andr.612, etc.:—old woman, Hom., esp. in Od., 1.191, al., A.Eu.38, etc.; “γ. παλαιή” Od. 19.346: prov., γραῶν ὕθλος old wives' fables, Pl.Tht.176b: with Subst., “γ. γυνή” E.Tr.490, Ar. Th.345, D.19.283: Com., ὁ γραῦς of an old man, Ar.Th.1214 cod. R.
II. scum of boiled milk, Id.Pl. 1206, Arist.GA743b7.
III. sea-crab, Arist.HA601a18 (as v.l.), Artem.2.14.
IV. kind of locust, “γ. σέριφος” Zen.2.94.
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 38
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 1206
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 1222
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 345
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 1214
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 283
    • Euripides, Andromache, 612
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 490
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.346
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.191
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 176b
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