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στα^φυ^λ-ή , ἡ,
A.bunch of grapes, “σταφυλῇσι μέγα βρίθουσαν ἀλωήν” Il.18.561; “ἡμερὶς ἡβώωσα τεθήλει δὲ σταφυλῇσι” Od.5.69, cf. 7.121; “σταφυλαὶ παντοῖαι” 24.343, cf. Pl.Lg.844e, Apoc.14.18; Πυρναίαις ς. Theoc.1.46; of ripe, fresh grapes, opp. ὄμφαξ on the one hand, and σταφίς on the other, AP5.303: collectively in sg., PPetr.3p.60 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.300.14 (iii B.C.), POxy.116.18 (ii A.D.), etc.
2. ς. ἀγρία,= “μήλωθρον” 1, Thphr.HP3.18.11, Plin.HN23.21.
II. uvula when swollen at the end so as to resemble a grape on the stalk, Hp. Prog.23, Nicopho 28, Arist.HA493a3; of the uvula generally, Archig. ap.Gal.12.969,974; inflammation of the uvula, IG42(1).126.30 (Epid, ii A.D.), Gal.7.731 (pl.).
III. parox. σταφύλη, plummet of a level, ἵπποι . . σταφύλῃ ἐπὶ νῶτον ἔϊσαι horses equal in height even by the level, matched to a nicety, Il.2.765, cf. Call.Fr.159, Hsch., EM742.44.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.561
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.765
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.69
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.121
    • New Testament, Revelation, 14.18
    • Plato, Laws, 844e
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.343
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 23
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.21
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