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κα^μάρ-α , Ion. κα^μάρ-η [μα^], ἡ,
A.anything with an arched cover, covered carriage, Hdt.1.199, D.C.36.49; covered boat or barge, Str.11.2.12, cf. Gell.10.25; vaulted chamber, Agatharch.62, PStrassb.91.5 (i B.C.), D.S.18.26, BGU731 (ii A.D.); vault of a tomb, CIG2241 (Chios), 3007 (Ephesus), 3104（Teos), IG7.2725.4(Acraeph.); vault of heaven, LXX Is.40.22; vaulted ceiling, “τοῦ ἑπτακλίνου” PCair.Zen.445.9 (iii B.C.); tester-bed, Arr.An.7.25.4; vaulted sewer, as gloss on ψαλίς, Sch.Pl.Lg. 947d, Hsch.
II. Medic., hollow near the auditory meatus, Poll. 2.86.
III. pl., = ζῶναι στρατιωτικαί, Hsch. (Cf. Avest, kamarā 'girdle', Lat. camurus, unless Carian, cf. “καμαρός” 11.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.199
    • Plato, Laws, 947d
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.2.12
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 40.22
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 7.25.4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.26
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 36.49
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