A.three cubits long or tall, “ὕπερον τρίπηχυν” Hes.Op.423; “εἴδωλον τρίπηχυ” Hdt.1.51; “παλλάδιον τρίπηχυ” Apollod.3.12.3; “ῥῖνα τρίπηχυν” AP11.267; “κροκόδιλοι ὅσον τε τριπήχεες” Hdt.4.192; “κλῳῷ τριπήχει” E.Cyc.235; “τόξα τριπήχη” X.An.4.2.28; “καταπάλτας τριπήχεις” IG22.1467.53, Plb.5.88.7; “ῥάβδους τριπήχεις” Dsc.1.100: metaph., “ἔπη τριπήχη” Crates Com. 19 (ἐπεὶ codd.Ath.):—also τριπήχης , ες, Hdn.Gr.1.82.
τρί-πηχυς , υ, gen. εος,
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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