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πυ^λωρ-ός , ὁ,
A.gate-keeper, warder, porter, A.Th.621; π. πύργων, ναῶν, E.Tr.956, IT 1227 (troch.); “Ἅιδου κύων” Id.HF1277: as fem., “ἡ π. δωμάτων γυνή” Id.IT1153: in Prose, Aen.Tact.28.2, al., LXX Ne.7.1, al., Ph.2.216; of the guards of the Propylaea at Athens, IG22.2297: metaph., τοῖον πυλωρὸν φύλακα . . τροφῆς such a watchful guardian of thy life, S.Aj. 562; κακοὺς π. ὑμᾶς, ὦ Κορίνθιοι, ἡ Πελοπόννησος ἔχει Prov. ap. Plu.2.221f.
II. Medic., pylorus or lower orifice of the stomach, “οἷον π. τις” Gal.UP4.7, cf. Nat.Fac.3.4, Cels.4.1.7, Ruf.Onom.169, Id. ap. Orib.7.26.34.
2. π., ἡ, os uteri, Ps.-Democr. ap. Hp.Ep.23. (Cf. πυλαωρός.)
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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