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κλάδος [α^], ου, ὁ,
A.branch, shoot of a tree, Arist.Juv.468b25, GA752a20; twig, opp. ἀκρεμών, Thphr.HP1.1.9, 1.10.7: generally, branch, “τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους” Hdt.7.19: presented by suppliants, “ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον” A.Eu.43, cf. Supp.22 (anap.), S.OT3, 143; also of laurel branches used in temples, E.Ion80.
2. plank, POxy. 1738.4, al. (iii A.D.).
3. branch of a blood-vessel, Gal.15.141.
4. metaph., ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, Emp.29.1.
5. κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, Epigr.Gr.368.7:—metapl. forms, dat. “κλαδί” Scol.9, prob. in SIG1025.33 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); “τῇ κ.” Ael.NA4.38 codd. (cf. Eust.58.37); “τῷ κ.” Choerob.in Theod.1.138; acc. “κλάδα” Lyr.Adesp.122; cf. κλάδα[ν]: κλάδον, Hsch.; gen. pl. κλαδέων prob. in Philox.1.3; dat. pl. “κλάδεσι” Ar.Av.239 (lyr.), Ep. “κλαδέεσσι” Nic. Fr.74.19; acc. κλάδας ib.53.
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 (8):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 43
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 22
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 239
    • Euripides, Ion, 80
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.19
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 143
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 3
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 4.38
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