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τέλμα , ατος, τό,
A.standing water, pond, marsh, swamp, Ar.Av. 1593, Pl.Phd.109b, X.Oec.20.11, Men.Epit.532, Thphr.HP1.4.2: pl., low lands subject to inundation, water-meads, Hdt.2.93, Thphr. Fr.174.1, Gal.6.709, 15.121, Jul.Mis.358a; mud at the edge of a riverbank, Ael.VH12.46.
II. mud used as mortar, “τέλματι χρεώμενοι ἀσφάλτῳ” Hdt.1.179; cf. τελμίς.
2. space pointed with mortar, between the courses of masonry, Procop.Aed.2.1.
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 (7):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1593
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.179
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.93
    • Plato, Phaedo, 109b
    • Xenophon, Economics, 20.11
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 12.46
    • Julian the Emperor, Misopogon, 358a
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