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λεῖμμα , ατος, τό, (λείπω)
A.remnant, residue, Phld.Herc.1251.6 (pl.), Plu.Nic.17, τοῦ παιδὸς τὰ λείμματα what was left of him, his remains, Hdt.1.119; so, of persons, LXX 4 Ki.19.4, Ep.Rom.11.5.
2. in Music, interval of 256 243 left over when two τόνοι of 9 8 are measured off from the διὰ τεσσάρων (4 3), Ptol.Harm.1.10, Gaud.Harm.13, 15, Adrast. ap. Theon.Sm.p.68 H., al., Procl.in Ti.2.168, 179 D.; misunderstood as the number 13 (256—243) by Plu.2.1017f, cf.Anon. ap. Theon.Sm.p.69 H.
b. in Rhythmic, the shortest pause, “λ. ἐν ῥυθμῷ χρόνος κενὸς ἐλάχιστος” Aristid.Quint.1.18.
3. in Medicine, intermission in fever, Steph.in Gal.1.268 D.(sg.and pl.).
4. deficiency, “μὴ γενέσθαι μήτε δανεισμὸν μήτε λ. περὶ ταύτας τᾶς εἰσφορᾶς” IG5(1).1432.9 (Messene, i B.C./i A.D.).
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.119
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