Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἴς

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A.“ἴνεσι” Il.23.191, also “ἰσίν” Sor. (v. infr.), Suid. s.v. ἶνες, cj. Nauck for εἰσίν in A.Fr.229:— sinew, tendon, sg. once in Hom., “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἂν . . ἀνὴρ . . ἶνα τάμῃ διὰ πᾶσαν” Il.17.522: usu. in pl., sinews, “οὐ γὰρ ἔτι σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα ἲνες ἔχουσιν” Od.11.219, cf. Il.23.191; “ἶνες ἄρθρων” Ar.Pax86, cf. Archil.138; ἶνες αὐτὸ μόνον καὶ λεπτὴ δορά, of a person wasted by disease, Ph.2.432; δοράς, σάρκας, ἶνας ib.527: metaph., “Τρωίας ἶνας ἐκταμὼν δορί” Pi.I.8(7).57.

2. later, the fibrous vessels in the muscles, Pl.Ti.84a, Arist.HA515b27, al.; in blood, fibrine, Id.PA650b14, cf. Pl.Ti.82c, Meno Iatr.17.34: metaph., of metals, Plu.2.434b.

3. rib in the leaves of plants, Thphr.HP3.12.7 (sg.).

4. strip of papyrus, “ταῖς τῶν χαρτῶν ἰσίν” Sor.1.13: sg., Gal.10.1000.

b. λεπτὴ ἴς a small fibre of papyrus, Id.17(1).795.

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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