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σι^δήρ-ιον (Dor. σιδάριον Schwyzer180.5 (Crete)), τό,
A.implement or tool of iron, IG12.313.128 (v B.C.); θερμοῖσι ς. ἐκκαίειν τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς with hot irons, Hdt.7.18; ἐπαΐοντες σιδηρίων feeling iron, not being proof against it, Id.3.29; of a knife, Id.9.37, cf. Lys.1.42; “ς. εἰς κρεονομίαν” PCair.Zen.720.3 (iii B.C.); ς. λιθουργά, of a stonemason's tools, Th.4.4, cf. Thphr.Lap.41; “σιδηρίων μισθός” IG22.1656; “λίθους καὶ ξύλα καὶ ς.” Pl.Euthd.300b; “ς. πλατέα” Arist. Cael.313a17.
II. iron, Daimachus 4J. (v.l. σίδηρον).
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.29
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.18
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.37
    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 42
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 300b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.4
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