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κνημίς , ῖδος, ἡ, Aeol. acc. κνᾶμιν Eust.265.18 (corrupted to κνῆμιν in Choerob. in Theod.1.327); Aeol. nom. pl. κνάμι^δες Alc.15.4: (κνήμη):—
A.greave, legging, “κνημῖδας μὲν πρῶτα περὶ κνήμῃσιν ἔθηκε ἀργυρέοισιν ἐπισφυρίοις ἀραρυίας” Il.19.369; “τεῦξε δέ οἱ κνημῖδας . . κασσιτέροιο” 18.613; “κ. ὀρειχάλκοιο φαεινοῦ” Hes.Sc.122; βόειαι κ. oxhide leggings, Od.24.229, cf. Plb.11.9.4; sg., Il.21.592, Luc.Rh.Pr. 18.
II. spoke of a wheel, D.S.18.27.
III. = κνημός 1, D.P.714.
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 (9):
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 122
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.369
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.592
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.613
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.229
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.9.4
    • Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, 18
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.27
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