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πάγος [α^], ὁ, （πήγνυμι) prop.,
A.that which is fixed or firmly set:
I. crag, rock, “σπιλάδες τε πάγοι τε” Od.5.405; π. ὀξέες ib.411: generally, rocky hill, Hes.Sc.439, Pi.O.10(11).49, I.2.33; “χλοερὸς ὑλώδης π.” S.Ichn.215; ὁ Ἄρειος (Ion. Ἀρήϊος） π. the Areopagus at Athens, Hdt. 8.52, cf. A.Eu.685sq.; “Ἄρεος εὔβουλος π.” S.OC947; “Ἀρείοις ἐν π.” E. IT1470, cf. 961; “ἐν κλεινοῖς Ἀθηναίων π.” S.Fr.323; μαντεῖος, ἀκρονιφὴς π., of Delphi, Pae.Delph.7, 16.
II. after Hom., = παγετός, frost, “πάγου χυθέντος” S.Ph.293; “π. φανέντος αἰθρίου” Id.Fr.149.3; “ὄντος π. οἵου δεινοτάτου” Pl.Smp.220b, etc.: pl., “τῶν ὑπαιθρίων π.” A.Ag.335, cf. S.Ant.357 (lyr.), Arist.HA523a20, GA735a35, etc.: heterocl. dat. pl. “πάγεσι” Id.Pr.907a9: dat. sg. πάγει (v.l. πάγοις) D. S.3.34.
2. scum on the surface of milk, Sch.Nic.Al.91.
3. salt, as formed by the evaporation of sea-water, Lyc.135.
4. coagulation, π. αἵματος Aret.CA2.2, cf. SA2.7.
5. ἄκριτον πάγος of the confused mass outside the universe, Hp.Hebd.6; “τὸν περιέχοντα πάγον” Id.Vict.1.10, cf. Paul.Al.I.4.
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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