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πηρός (Dor. πα_ρός implied in ἔμπαρος, παρόω, qq.v.), ά, όν,
A.disabled in a limb, maimed, αἱ δὲ χολωσάμεναι πηρὸν θέσαν [the Muses] made him helpless or blind (cf. Aesop.57), Il.2.599; “πηρὸς ὁ μὲν γυίοις, ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὄμμασι” AP9.11 (Phil. or Isid.); “πηραὶ τὰ σκέλεα” Hp.Mul.2.131.
2. of the mind, Semon.7.22; ἀμβλεῖς καὶ π. Ph.1.624; π. τῷ νῷ Sch.Ar.Pl.48; “πηροὶ οἱ λογισμοί” Luc.Am.46.
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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    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 48
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