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προ-άστιον , τό,
A.suburb, Pi.Fr.129.2, S.El.1432, E.Alc.836, Hdt.1.78, 3.142, 8.129, Th.2.34, IG22.1191.19 (iv B.C.), SIG1215.27 (Myconus, iii/ii B.C.), AP11.38 (Polem. Rex); opp. ὁ τῆς πόλεως περίβολος, Pl.Lg.759a, cf. Th.5.2, Plb.4.78.11, etc.: pl., Hdt.2.41, X.HG3.2.27, LXX Nu.35.2, 7, Luc.Herm.24, OGI483.160 (Pergam.), 669.48 (Egypt, i A.D.), PGrenf.2.70.3 (iii A.D.), etc.
2. house or estate in the suburbs, Philostr. VA1.7, VS2.1.11.
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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    • Euripides, Alcestis, 836
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.78
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.41
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.142
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.129
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 35.2
    • Plato, Laws, 759a
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1432
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.34
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.2
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.2.27
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.78.11
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 7
    • Lucian, Hermotimus, 24
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.7
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.1.11
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