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μί-ασμα [ι^], ατος, τό, （μιαίνω)
A.stain, defilement, esp. by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, A.Eu.169 (lyr.), 281, etc.; “οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μ.” Id.Th.682; “μ. φεύγων αἵματος” E.Hipp.35; “μ. τῶν φυτευσάντων λαβεῖν” S.OT1012; “οὐ προσῆκον μίασμα εἰς οἴκους εἰσάγεσθαι” Antipho 4.1.3; “μ. τινὸς ἐπεξέρχεσθαι” Id.4.3.6; “τὸ μ. εἰς αὑτὸν δέχεσθαι” Pl.Lg.871b: in pl., A.Ag.1420, Ch.1017; “αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα” Id.Supp.265, etc.
II. that which defiles, pollution, of persons, “χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων” Id.Ag.1645; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, Id.Ch.1028: “μ. χώρας ἐλαύνειν” S.OT97; ὡς μ. τοῦδ᾽ ἡμὶν ὄντος ib.241: in Prose more generally, “πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι” Hp.Flat.5.
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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