A.wheat, Triticum vulgare, μελίφρονα, μελιηδέα πυρόν, Il.8.188, 10.569; κατὰ πυρὸν ἄλεσσαν ground it, Od.20.109; given to geese, 19.536: pl., with other grains, “πυροί τε ζειαί τε ἰδ᾽ εὐρυφυὲς κρῖ λευκόν” 4.604; “πυροὶ καὶ κριθαί” 9.110, 19.112, cf. Il.11.69, IG12.76.38, al., Hdt.2.36, 4.33, Ar.V.1405, Pax 1145, Av.580, Th.6.22, D.19.145, Thphr.HP8.4.3, Dsc.2.85, etc.
πυ_ρός (in dialects also σπυρός (q. v.)), ὁ,
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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