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κρημνός (A), ὁ, heterocl.pl. κρημνά , τά,
A.v.l. for κρημνούς in Eus. Mynd.63:—overhanging bank, in Hom. (only Il.) of the bank of a river, edge of a trench, 12.54, 21.175,234,244, cf. Pi.O.3.22; “κ. θαλάσσας” Id.Fr.201; “κ. μαλακοί” Arist.HA615b31; later, beetling cliff, crag, “ἀπὸ τοῦ κ. ὠθέειν” Hdt.4.103; ἀναθεῖναι ἐπὶ κρημνόν τιν' Ar.Pl.69; κατὰ τῶν κ. ἅλλεσθαι down from the cliffs of Epipolae, Th.7.45; “κατὰ κ. ῥιφέντες” Pl.Lg.944a; οἱ K., the Screes, on the Sea of Azof, Hdt.4.20, 110.
2. in pl., edges of an ulcer, Hp.Loc.Hom.29.
3. labia pudendi, ib.47, Poll.2.174, Ruf.Onom.112.
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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    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 69
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.20
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.103
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.175
    • Plato, Laws, 944a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.45
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.54
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