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κρόμμυ^ον , τό, Ep. κρόμυ^ον ,
A.onion, Allium Cepa, “κρομύοιο λοπόν” Od.19.233; “κρόμυον ποτῷ ὄψον” Il.11.630, cf. Hdt.2.125, 4.17; freq. in Ar., Lys.798, etc.; κελεύω κρόμμυα ἐσθίειν, = κλαίειν κελεύω, Bias ap.D.L.1.83.
2. τὰ κ. the onion-market, Eup.304.
II. κ. σχιστόν, a variety of Allium Cepa, shallot, Thphr.HP7.4.7. (Written κρόμμυον in PCair.Zen.269.4, 300.3, PSI4.332.13, PPetr.3p.328 (all iii B. C.), freq. in codd. (confirmed by metre in Ar., etc.); “κρόμυον” Hom. ll.cc. (perh. metri gr.), POxy.1584.23 (ii A. D.), Stud.Pal. 22.75.8 (iii A. D.), etc.: prob. assim. fr. κρέμμυον, cf. place-name “Κρεμμυών” B.17.24, etc.)
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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    • Bacchylides, Dithyrambs, 17.24
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.125
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.17
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.630
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 798
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