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μεσό-γαιος , ον, also α, ον,
A.inland, in the heart of a country, “μ. οἰκέειν” Hdt.1.145; τὴν μ. τῆς ὁδοῦ the inland road, Id.7.124, 9.89; “μ. πόλεις” Plb.2.5.2; ὁ μ., opp. οἱ παράκτιοι, IG5(2).268.25 (Mantinea, i B. C.): Comp. μεσογαιότερος (v.l. -ειό-) Str.13.1.51: Att. also μεσόγεως , ων, Pl.Lg.909c; Ep. μεσσόγεως Call.Dian.37.
II. as Subst. μεσόγαια , ἡ, inland parts, interior, Hdt.1.175, 2.7,9, etc.; μεσόγεια , ἡ, Th.1.100, 120, 6.88, D.18.301:—also μεσόγαια , τά, App.BC4.53.
2. μεσόγεια, ἡ, continent, Call.Del.168.
III. Μεσόγειοι, οἱ, inhabitants of the interior of Attica, IG22.1245.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 301
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.145
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.175
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.7
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.124
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.89
    • Plato, Laws, 909c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.100
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.5.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.1.51
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.88
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