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μόθων , ωνος, ὁ, at Sparta,
A.children of Helots, brought up as foster-brothers of the young Spartans, Sch.Ar.Pl.279; expld. as τὸν οἰκογενῆ δοῦλον, EM590.14; cf. μόθαξ.
2. in Att., presumptuous, impudent fellow, Ar.Pl.279; invoked as the god of impudence, Id.Eq. 635.
II. a licentious dance, E.Ba.1060 (dub. cj.), Ar.Eq.697, cf. Sch.Ar.Pl.279; “φορτικὸν ὄρχημα καὶ ναυτικόν” Poll.4.101.
2. a tune for the flute, Tryphoap.Ath.14.618c.
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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