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σι_τ-ίον , τό, mostly in pl. σιτία (sg. in Hp.Acut.（Sp.）44, de Arte 10, VM6, Pl.R.338d, Phdr.241c, and later Prose, as Archig. ap. Orib.8.1.15, Pythagorei ap.Plu.2.12f, Porph. Abst.1.27); only used in Prose and Comedy:
I. grain, corn, ἤλουν ὄρθριαι τὰ ς. Pherecr.10.
II. food made from grain, bread, τούτοισι δὲ (sc. ὀσπρίοισι）“ μὴ χρῆσθαι εἰ μὴ μετὰ σιτίων” Hp.Acut.（Sp.) 47; ἀπὸ ὀλυρέων ποιεῦνται σιτία make bread from spelt, Hdt.2.36; ς. σφί ἐστι ἱρὰ πεσσόμενα ib.37.
2. generally, victuals, provisions for men, opp. χόρτος (fodder for cattle), Id.1.94,188, etc.; σιτί᾽ ἡμερῶν τριῶν three days' provision, of soldiers, Ar.Ach.197, Pax 312, cf. Th.1.48, 3.1; ς. καὶ ποτά food and drink, Pl.Grg.490b: so in sg., X.An.1.10.18, etc.; “ἐν τοῖς ς. τε καὶ ὄψοις” Pl.Prt.334c; opp. ῥύφημα, Hp.Acut.13.
3. τἀν Πρυτανείῳ ς. public maintenance in the Prytaneum, Ar.Eq.709.
4. rarely, food for dogs, X.Cyn.7.11.
III. faces, Ar.Ec.355.
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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