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καπνός , ,
A.smoke, Il.1.317, etc.; “κνισάεντι καπνῷPi.I.4(3).66; “καπνῷ πυρόςA.Ag.497; spray, “καπνοῦ καὶ κύματος ἐκτὸς ἔεργε νῆαOd. 12.219 (hence metaph., Porph.Abst.1.47): prov., καπνοῦ σκιά, of things worth nothing, A.Fr.399, S.Ph.946; “τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμηνId.Ant.1170; also “περὶ καπνοῦ στενολεσχεῖνAr.Nu. 320; “κ. καὶ φλυαρίαPl.R.581d: and in pl., γραμμάτων καπνοί learned trifles, E.Hipp.954; “καπνοὺς . . καὶ σκιάςEup.51; nickname of a man, Id.122: metaph. also of envy, ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν to throw water on the smoking embers, Pi.N.1.24: prov., ἐς αὐτὸ τὸ πῦρ ἐκ τοῦ καπνοῦ βιαζόμενος 'out of the frying-pan into the fire', Luc.Nec.4,al.
II. fumitory, Fumaria officinalis, Anon.Lond.36.58, Dsc.4.109.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 954
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.317
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.219
    • Plato, Republic, 581d
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 1170
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 946
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 497
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 320
    • Lucian, Necyomantia, 4
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