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κουρ-εύς , έως, ὁ, (κείρω)
A.barber, hair-cutter, Pl.R.373c, Philyll.14, PMagd.15.1 (iii B. C.), Luc.Ind.29; ὁ κ. τὰς μαχαιρίδας λαβὼν ὑπὸ τῆς ὑπήνης κατακερεῖ—τὴν εἰσφοράν （παρὰ προσδοκίαν for τὸ γένειον) Eup.278; as a purveyor of gossip, Plu.2.177a, 509a.
2. shearer, “κουρεῖ τῷ κείραντι τὰς αἶγας” PCair.Zen.176.54 (iii B. C.).
II. a bird, said to chirp with a sound as of clipping, 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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    • Plato, Republic, 373c
    • Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, 29
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