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κόρυζ-α , ης, ἡ,
A.mucous discharge from the nostrils, rheum, Ruf. Onom.33, Gal.5.253; “κορύζης τὴν ῥῖνα μεστός” Luc.DMort.6.2; also, running at the nose, Gal.7.107; in this sense in pl., Hp.Prog.14, Gal. 10.513; inflammatory nasal catarrh, Hp.VM18, Gal.10.513, 18(2).180.
II. metaph., drivelling, stupidity, Luc.DMort.20.4, Hist. Conscr.31, Alex.20; “κορύζης καὶ λέμφου ἔμπλεως” Lib.Decl.33.29.
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 (4):
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 14
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 18
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 20.4
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6.2
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