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κευθ-μών , ῶνος, ὁ, (κεύθω)
A.hiding place, hole, “μαιομένη κευθμῶνας ἀνὰ σπέος” Od.13.367; ὥς τε σύες, πυκινοὺς κευθμῶνας ἔχοντες in the close-barred sties, 10.283; κευθμῶνες ὀρέων hollows of the mountains, Pi.P.9.34; κ. Κιθαιρῶνος Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141; “Ἰδαῖον ἐς κευθμῶν᾽” E.Hel.24; “Μαλέας ἄκροι κ.” Id.Cyc.293; “ἕδρας τε καὶ κευθμῶνας ἐνδίκου χθονός” A.Eu.805.
2. of the nether world, “γαίης ἐν κευθμῶνι” Hes.Th.158; Ταρτάρου μελαμβαθὴς κ. the deep black vault of T., A.Pr.222; “νεκρῶν” E.Hec.1; “ἠλιβάτοις ὑπὸ κ.” Id.Hipp.732 (lyr.).—Rare in Prose, as Str.11.2.10.
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, 805
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 222
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 293
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 1
    • Euripides, Helen, 24
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 732
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.141
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 158
    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.283
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.367
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.2.10
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