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κρι_θ-ή , ἡ, mostly in pl.,
A.barleycorns, barley (cf. κρῖ), the meal being ἄλφιτα: “πυρῶν ἢ κριθῶν” Il.11.69, cf. Od.9.110, 19.112, Ar.Eq.1101; “κριθᾶν μέδιμμνον” IG42(1).40.7 (Epid.); “"τὰς οὐλοχύτας φέρε δεῦρο"—"τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶ τί;"—"κριθαί"” Strato Com.1.35; οἶνος ἐκ κριθέων πεποιημένος a kind of beer, Hdt.2.77; “ἐκ κριθῶν μέθυ” A.Supp.953, cf.Arist.Fr.106; κριθαὶ πεφρυγμέναι, = κάχρυς, Th.6.22, cf. Moer.p.213 P.: pl., also of species of barley, Thphr. HP8.1.1: sg., PGrenf.2.29.9 (ii B. C.); κ. Ἰνδική millet, Sorghum halepense, Thphr.HP8.4.2.
II. pustule on the eyelid, stye, Hp. Epid.2.2.5, Gal.12.742.
III. barley-corn, the smallest weight, Thphr.Lap.46.
IV. in sg., = πόσθη, Ar.Pax965. (The connexion with Lat.hordeum, OHG.gersta is doubtful.)
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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