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λευρός , ά, όν (also ός, όν A.Pr.371), poet. Adj.
A.smooth, level, even, “λευρῷ ἐνὶ χώρῳ” Od.7.123, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.67; Σικελίας λευροὺς γύας A.l.c.; λ. οἶμος αἰθέρος ib.396; “ἐν ψαμάθῳ λευρᾷ” E.Hec.700 (lyr.); πέδον, πέτρα, Id.Ph.836, Ba.982 (lyr.); “ὁδοί” Call.Aet.Oxy.2080.67.
II. smooth, polished, “ξίφος” Pi.N.7.27; δέρμα . . λευρὸν ἔθηκε “βοός” AP6.116 (Samus).
III. λευρᾶς σωφροσύνης: τελείας, καὶ ταπεινῆς, κοίλης, ὁμαλῆς, μὴ τραχείας, 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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