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ποδα^πός , ή, όν,
A.from what country?: hence, generally, whence? where born? Hdt.7.218 (as v.l.), A.Ch.575, S.OC1160, E.Cyc.276, etc.; “τίς καὶ π.;” Pl.Ap.20b; “π. τὸ γένος;” Ar.Pax186, cf. Av.108; of wine, “π. ὁ Βρόμιος; Θάσιος” Alex.230.
2. generally, of what sort? “π. τὸ δῶρον;” S.Fr.453: freq. in later Gr., Ev.Matt.8.27, Ev.Luc.1.29, Hermog.Inv.1.1, etc.; in a play on both senses, “π. τὸ γένος; πλούσιος” Alex.90; π. (sc. κύων）“; οἷος . . μὴ δάκνειν” D.25.40. Adv. “-πῶς” Hdn. Gr.2.925; ποταπῶς Gloss. (Phryn.39 considers signf. 2 un-Attic, but S.l.c. is cited by Sch. D.T.p.239 H.: the spelling ποταπός (wh. is f.l. in Alex.230 (codd. Ath.)) is found in later Gr., ll. cc. supr., cf. Phld.Vit.p.25J., D.H.7.57, Ph.1.157(v.l.), Philostr.VA3.16, Luc. Par.22, Jul.Or.4.138c. ποδ- = Lat. quod; for the termination cf. ἀλλοδαπός (and v. A.D.Synt.20.15). Derived fr. ποίου δαπέδου by Phryn.l.c., Phot.）
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, Libation Bearers, 575
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.57
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