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μυ?́λ-η , ἡ,
A.mill: in Hom., hand-mill turned by women, “αἱ μὲν ἀλετρεύουσι μύλης ἔπι μήλοπα καρπόν” Od.7.104; “γυνὴ . . ἀλετρὶς πλησίον, ἔνθ᾽ ἄρα οἱ μύλαι ἥατο” 20.106; μύλην στρέφειν, περιάγειν, περιφέρειν, περιελαύνειν, Poll.7.180; μηδὲ μύλαν (Dor.) “ἐνεῖμεν μηδὲ ὅλμον” IG22.1126.24 (Amphict. Delph., iv B. C.): Cret.acc. pl. “μύλανς” Schwyzer 180.6.
II. nether millstone (the upper being ὄνος), Ar.V.648: pl., “αἱ μύλαι” Arist.Mete.383b7, cf. Pherecr.10.
III. knee-pan, Hp.Off.9, Com.Adesp.450, Arist.HA 494a5, Paus.1.35.5.
IV. hard formation in a woman's womb, Hp.Mul.1.71, 2.178, Arist.GA775b25.
V. pl., molars, LXX Jb. 29.17, Anon.Lond.24.24, Gal.UP9.15: sg., of an ass's tooth, PMag. Lond.125.22, al.
VI. = μῶλυ, Gal.12.80: root of λάπαθον, Aët. 1.251. (Cf. Lat. molo, Goth. malan 'grind', etc.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 648
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.106
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.104
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.35.5
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 9
    • Old Testament, Job, 29.17
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