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ῥάκος [α^], εος, τό,
A.ragged, tattered garment, “δὸς ῥ. ἀμφιβαλέσθαι” Od. 6.178, cf. 13.434, 14.342,349 (never in Il.); ἀνθ᾽ ἱματίου μὲν ἔχειν ῥ. Ar.Pl.540; “ῥ. φορεῖ” Antiph.204.6, PPetr.3p.115 (iii B.C.), cf. Philem. 146: freq. in pl. ῥάκεα, Att. ῥάκη, rags, tatters, Od.14.512, 18.67,74, 19.507,al., Hdt.3.129, S.Ph.39,274; “ἐν ῥάκεσι περιφθείρεσθαι” Isoc.Ep. 9.10.
2. generally, strip of cloth, “ῥάκεα φοινίκεα” Hdt.7.76, cf. Ev.Matt.9.16, Arr.Tact.35.3: even a strip of flesh, σώματος ῥ. A.Pr. 1023.
3. collectively, rag, lint, Hp.Morb.2.36; “ῥάκη λινᾶ” Dsc.5.75.15.
II. in pl. also, rents in the face, wrinkles, Ar.Pl.1065.
III. metaph., rag, remnant, “εἰκάσαι τὸ ἐρείπιον ῥάκει οἰκίας” Anon. ap. Arist. Rh.1413a6; of an old seaman, ἁλίοιο βίου ῥ. AP9.242 (Antiphil.), cf. 7.380 (Crin.), Luc.Tim.32.—The Aeol. form βράκος (q.v.), used of a garment, lacks the sense 'ragged'.
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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