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κισσός , Att. κιττός , ὁ,
A.ivy, Hedera Helix, of three kinds, two climbing (μέλας and λευκός), and one creeping (also called ἕλιξ), Thphr.HP 3.18.6, cf. Dsc.2.179, h.Bacch.40; “ἀτενής” S.Ant.826 (lyr.); “κισσοῦ στέφανος” OGl49.7 (Egypt, iii B.C.); sacred to Dionysus, “κισσῷ . . στεφανωθεὶς Διόνυσον θεραπεύει” E.Ba.81 (lyr.); “κύκλῳ δὲ περί σε κ. εὐπέταλος ἕλικι θάλλει” Ar.Th.999: hence οἴνωψ (or οἰνωπός) S.OC674 (lyr.).
II. = κιρσός (Achaean), Hsch.
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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    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 999
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 81
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 7 to Dionysus, 40
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 826
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