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κόκκος , ὁ,
A.grain, seed, as of the pomegranate, h.Cer.372, 412, Hdt. 4.143, Hermipp.36, Hp.Mul.1.37, PTeb.273.47 (ii/iii A.D.); “κ. Βαβυλώνιος” Philostr.Ep.54; of the poppy, Euphro 11.11; of the pine, IG 14.966.12; of wheat, Philum.Ven.3.3; of weeds in corn, PLond.5.1697.13 (vi A.D.); cf. Κνίδιος: metaph., νόου δέ μοι οὐκ ἔνι κ. not a grain of sense, Timo66.3.
2. a measure, Dsc.2.166, Orib.Fr. 35.
II. 'berry' (gall) of kermes oak, used to dye scarlet, Thphr. HP3.7.3, Gal.12.32: hence, scarlet (the colour), Dromo 1.4, PHolm. 22.1.
2. κ. or κ. βαφική, ἡ, kermes oak, Quercus coccifera, Dsc.4.48, Paus.10.36.1.
III. pill, Alex.Trall.5.4.
IV. in pl., testicles, AP12.222 (Strat.).
2. pudenda muliebria, 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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.143
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 372
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 412
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.36.1
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