A.rocky, rugged, in Hom. always of Ithaca (exc. in Il.3.445 where it is pr. n. of an island), Il.3.201, Od. 1.247, al.; of Delos, Pi.I.1.3; freq. of Athens, Id.O.7.82, etc.: hence as pr. n., Κραναὰ πόλις Athens, Ar.Ach.75; simply “αἱ Κρανααί” Id.Av.123; ἡ Κραναά of the Acropolis, Id.Lys.481; Κραναοί the people of Attica, Hdt.8.44, Str.9.1.18; παῖδες Κραναοῦ (Cranaos being a mythic king of Athens) A.Eu.1011 (anap.)
κρα^να^ός , ή, όν, poet. word,
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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