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πρι?ν-ι^νος , η, ον,
A.made from the “πρῖνος, γύης” Hes. Op.429; “ἄνθρακες” Ar.Ach.668; αἱ πρίνιναι (sc. βάλανοι) Dsc.1.106.2; “π. ὕλη” Orib.49.3.1; μύκητες π. fungi that grow under the ilex, Antiph.227.11, cf. An.Ox.3.231.
2. metaph., oaken, i.e. tough, sturdy, “γέροντες” Ar.Ach.180; “τὸ λίαν στρυφνὸν καὶ π. ἦθος” Id.V.877; “ἀθληταί” Luc.Hist.Conscr.8, cf. AP7.37 (Diosc.) (rejected by Hom. in favour of φήγινος for reasons of euphony, acc. to Phld.Po.2.9).
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, Wasps, 877
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 429
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 180
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 668
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