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κρότα^φ-ος , ,
A.side of the forehead, Il.4.502, 20.397, Ar.Ra.854: mostly in pl., temples, Il.13.188, al., Hdt.4.187, Hp.Prog.2, etc.; “πρᾶτον ἴουλον ἀπὸ κροτάφων καταβάλλωνTheoc.15.85, cf. 11.9, IG5(1).1355 (Abia); “τοὺς κ. πολιοῦνται πρῶτονArist.GA 784b35.
2. generally, side edge, profile, Procl.Hyp.3.6; κύκλου ib.17; of a brick, PMag.Par.1.30; κατὰ κρόταφον sideways, horizontally, Hero Bel.98.2, Ph.Bel.64.25, cf. 60.7; ἐπὶ κρορόταφον on its side, ib.66.13.
II. metaph., slope of a mountain, A.Pr.721; ὑπὸ κροτάφοις Ἑλικῶνος Philiadasap.St.Byz. s.v. Θέσπεια.
III. back of a book, Anon. ap. Suid.
IV. edge or narrow side of a stele, IG42(1).109 iii 162, iv 129 (Epid.). (κόρταφος EM541.23, Et.Gud., Zonar., prob. to be read in Pl.Com.84; κότραφος PMag.Osl.1.152, etc.)
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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 721
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 854
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.187
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.188
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.397
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.502
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 2
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