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ῥι_νός (v. sub fin.),
A.skin of a living person, Il.5.308, Od.5.426,435, etc.; rarely of a corpse, Od.14.134, Hes.Sc.152.
II. hide of a beast, esp. ox-hide, Od.1.108, al.; also “ῥ. πολιοῖο λύκοιο” Il.10.334; “ῥ. λέοντος” Pi.I.5(6).37; not in Hom. of the skin of a live beast, but so used by Hes.Op.515, Sc.427; “πωλικῆς ῥινοῦ” E.Rh.784.
2. oxhide shield, “σύν ῥ᾽ ἔβαλον ῥινούς” Il.4.447 (imitated by Ar.Pax 1274); cf. Il.16.636 and “ῥινόν” 2.
3. pl., thongs of boxing-gloves, A.R.2.58.
4. leather of a sling, AP7.172 (Antip. Sid.).—The gender is fem. in Il.7.248, 20.276, Od.22.278 (v.l.), Hes.Sc.152, E.l.c., Nic. Th.361, A.R.4.174; masc. in Nic.Al.476, Opp.C.3.277: cf. ῥινόν, τό. （ϝρι_νός, as shown by γρῖνος: δέρμα, Hsch., γρίντης: βυρσεύς, Id.: cf. ταλαύρινος.)
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, Peace, 1274
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 784
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 427
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 152
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 515
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    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.108
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.426
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.58
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