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λα^γώς or λαγῶς , ὁ, gen. λαγώ or λαγῶ （λαγῶς, λαγῶ, acc. to Hdn.Gr. 1.245, 2.629); acc.
A.“λαγών” Ar.V.1203, Frr.212, 252, but λαγώ or “λαγῶ” X.Cyn.3.3 (this form is condemned by Luc.Sol.3, but cf. Ath.9.400a): pl., nom. “λαγῴ” Eup. 143; acc. “λαγώς” Arist.HA619b9:—Ion. λαγός , οῦ, Hdt.1.123, al., and so καθ᾽ ἡμᾶς, Ath.9.400a; also in Dor., Epich. 60, and Trag. and Com., S.Fr.111, Amips.18, Alex.123, Philem.89.5:—Ep. λα^γωός , οῦ, also in X.Cyn.10.2 codd., Arist.HA606a24, EN 1118a18, Luc.Symp.38, etc., and cf. infr. 111, v:—hare, “ἢ κεμάδ᾽ ἠὲ λαγωόν” Il.10.361; “πτῶκα λαγωόν” 22.310; “πρόκας ἠδὲ λαγωούς” Od. 17.295; τοὶ δ᾽ ὠκύποδας λαγὸς (Dor. for λαγούς）“ ᾕρευν” Hes.Sc.302; λαγὼ δίκην like a hare, A.Eu.26: prov., ἐστὶν λαγώς, of a coward, Posidipp.26.9; λαγὼ βίον ζῆν lead a hare's life, D.18.263; δειλότερος λαγὼ Φρυγός Prov. ap. Str.1.2.30; ὁ λ. οὗτος this coward, Philostr.VA 4.37; λαγὼς καθεύδων, of persons feigning sleep, Zen.4.84, cf. X. Cyn.5.11; λ. τὸν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν τρέχων, of persons seeking to escape imminent death, Zen.4.85.
II. a bird with rough feathered fcet, mentioned with the swallow, Artem.4.56, cf. Ant.Lib.21.5; cf. λαγωδίας, λαγώπους.
III. a kind of sea-slug, Lepus marinus, Epich. l.c., Amips. l.c.; ὁ θαλάττιος λαγωός sea-hare, Aplysia leporina, Plu. 2.983f, Gal.11.688, al., cf. Nic.Al.465, Dsc.2.18.
IV. a constellation, Arat.338, Eudox. ap. Hipparch.1.2.20.
V. a kind of bandage, “τῷ λαγωῷ ἐπιδέσμῳ” Heliod. ap. Orib.46.18.2, cf. 48.27 tit., Sor. Fasc.7. (Prob.slack-ear, cf. λαγαρός, οὖς.)
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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