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στυπτηρ-ία , Ion. -ιη (sc. γῆ), ἡ, name of any of a group of
A.astringent substances containing (a) alum or (b) ferrous sulphate (χαλκῖτις (q.v.)), Hdt.2.180, freq. in Hp. (e.g. Ulc.14), Arist.HA547a20, Mir. 842b22, PCair.Zen.326bis 26 (iii B.C.), Ti.Locr.99d, Sor.1.50, Aret.CA 1.9, POxy.1429.4 (iii/iv A.D.), PHolm.1.4,7, al.
II. in Egypt, the alum monopoly, POxy.2116 (iii A.D.).
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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