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λα^πα^ρ-ός , ά, όν,
A.slack, loose, τὸ λ. τῆς πλευρῆς, = λαπάρα, Hp.Art. 50; of the bowels, Id.Prog.11; λαπαρὸς εἰλεός, Id.Epid.2.6.26, Orib. 8.28.5; λ. γίνεσθαι have the bowels opened, Arist.Pr.935b28; “ἵππος λ. ὢν ἀλγεῖ” Id.HA604b16 (nisi leg. λαπάρας ἀνέλκει); of a dislocated joint, “ὄπισθεν λαπαρόν, ἔμπροσθεν ἐξέχον” Hp.Mochl.24; hollow, of a cushion, “μέσον κατὰ μῆκος ποιήσαντα λαπαρόν” Id.Fract.16; πλευρέων ὀδύναι λαπαραί, perh. slight, Id.Epid.6.3.18 (so perh. λ. εἰλεός above). Adv. -ρῶς, ὑποχονδρίου ἔντασις λαπαρῶς, i.e. without swelling, ib. 3.1.β́ (opp. μετ᾽ ὄγκου acc. to Gal.ad loc.).
II. lewd, lecherous, Hsch.
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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