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κονί-α , Ion. and Ep. κονι-ίη , ἡ, (κόνις):
1. dust, “ποδῶν ὑπένερθε κ. ἵστατ᾽ ἀειρομένη” Il.2.150; “ὑπὸ δέ σφισιν ὦρτο κ.” 11.151: in pl., “κὰδ δ᾽ ἔπεσ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι” Od.18.98; “ἐν κονίῃσι πεσών” Il.17.315, etc.; “πρηνέες ἐν κονίῃσιν” 2.418, cf. Hes.Sc.365; “μιάνθησαν δὲ ἔθειραι αἵματι καὶ κονίῃσι” Il.16.796: also Trag. in lyr., A.Ag.64, E.Andr.112, Supp. 821.
2. sand, Il.21.271.
3. ashes, in pl., “κατ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἕζετ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάρῃ ἐν κονίῃσι” Od.7.153, cf. 160: sg., “κ. δρυΐνη” Gp.13.4.2.
II. pearl-ash, lye, soap-powder, “λούειν ἄνευ κονίας” Ar.Lys.470 (with a play on ἀκονιτί), cf. Ach.18, Ra.711, Pl.R.430b: pl., Thphr.HP4.10.4 (nisi leg. κονιάσεις).
2. alkaline fluid used for washing, Gal.12.35, al.; “κ. στακτή” Id.13.569.
b. κ. ἀπὸ τῆς ἱερᾶς σποδοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὕδατος, as a medicine, SIG1171.12 (Lebena).
III. = τίτανος, Erot. s.h.v.; κ. ἄσβεστος quicklime, Heraclid.Tarent. ap. Gal.12.958; “κ. μέλαινα” IG22.1672.197.
2. plaster, stucco, ib.42(1).103.278 (Epid.), POxy.1450.4 (iii A.D.), Eust.382.36. [Hom. uses ι^ in the quadrisyll. case κονίῃσι, ι_ in the trisyll.: Trag. and Com. ι^ in lyr. (dact. and anap.), A.Ag.64, E.Andr.112, Ar.Ra.711; ι_ in iamb., Id.Ach.18, Lys.470.]
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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