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ναυα?γ-ιον , Ion. ναυήγιον , τό,
A.piece of wreckage, Men.536.9, Arist.Pr.932a1: mostly in pl., A.Pers.420, Hdt.7.191, 8.12, al., Lys.2.38, Th.1.50, etc.; πολλοὺς ἀριθμοὺς ἄγνυται ναυαγίων, i. e. is shivered into a thousand pieces, E.Hel.410: metaph., ν. ἱππικά wreck of an overturned chariot, S.El.730, 1444; ἀνδρῶν δαιτυμόνων ν. the wreck of a feast, Choeril.9; “τὰ ν. τῆς πόλεως” Demad. ap. Plu.2.803a; ν. οἴκων ib. 517f.
II. later, = ναυαγία, ναυαγίῳ περιπεσεῖν Str.4.1.7.
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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    • Aeschylus, Persians, 420
    • Euripides, Helen, 410
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.191
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.12
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 38
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1444
    • Sophocles, Electra, 730
    • Strabo, Geography, 4.1.7
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.50
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