A.made of stone, Hippon.10, Ibyc.22, Hdt.3.88, Th.3.68, Herod.7.109, PHib.1.27.26 (iii B.C.), etc.; λ. θάνατος, i.e. caused by seeing the Gorgon's head, Pi.P.10.48; so “λ. εὐθὺς γίγνομαι” Antiph.166.4; but, ἕστηκε λίθινος, of a statue, Hdt.2.141 (cf. “ἵστημι” A.1, B.111.2); τὰ λ. marble statues, X.Lac.3.5; “Ἑρμῆς λ.” Eub.96; for Hdt.2.69, v. λίθος 11.1, “ὕαλος” 11: metaph., “καρδία” LXX Ez.11.19. Adv. -νως like stone, λ. βλέπειν πρός τινα, with allusion to the Gorgon, X.Smp. 4.24.
λι?́θ-ι^νος , η, ον, also ος, ον AP9.719, D.L.2.33:—
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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