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λι_μός , οῦ, ὁ (Dor. ἡ, acc. to Phryn.164, used by the Megarian in Ar.Ach.743, cf. Herod.2.17, Bion Fr.14.4; Λ. ἔχων γυναικὸς μορφήν Callisth. ap. Ath.10.452b; also h.Cer.311, Call.
A.Fr.anon.43, Plb.1.84.9, AP9.89 (Phil.), Ev.Luc.15.14, Act.Ap.11.28):—hunger, famine, “δίψα τε καὶ λ.” Il.19.166; “λιμῷ θανέειν” Od.12.342; “λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν” Hes.Op.243, cf. Th.2.54; “λ. αἰανής” Pi.I.1.49; “λιμῷ συνεστεῶτας” Hdt. 7.170; “σκότῳ λ. ξύνοικος” A.Ag.1642; “δείπνου προφήτην λιμόν” Antiph. 217.23; “ἅπανθ᾽ ὁ λ. γλυκέα πλὴν αὑτοῦ ποιεῖ” Id.293; “ὁ δὲ λ. ἐστιν ἀθανασίας φάρμακον” Id.86.6: prov., ἀπολεῖτε λιμῷ Μηλίῳ, referring to the siege of Melos, Ar.Av.186: metaph., “ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον . . λιμόν τ᾽ ἐν ἀνδρὸς πλουσίου φρονήματι, γνώμην δὲ μεγάλην ἐν πένητι σώματι” E.El. 371.
II. a hungry wretch, Men.Kol.78, Posidipp.26.12, Eust. 1828.6.
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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