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χα^μαί-ζηλος , ον （η, ον Hp.Art.13):—
A.seeking the ground, low-growing, dwarf, χ. φυτά, opp. δένδρα, Arist.HA559a13; “κόνυζα” Nic.Th.70; οἱ χ. φοίνικες dwarf-palms (cf. “χαμαιριφής” 11) Dsc.1.109; “καρποὶ καὶ λάχανα” Jul.Or.5.175d: generally, “τὰ ἐγγὺς ἡμῶν καὶ χ.” Them.Or.26.327d.
b. sunk down, ἡ ἐπωμὶς φαίνεται χ. Hp.l.c.; “τῇ ἡλικίᾳ χαμαίζηλος” Luc.pro Im.13.
2. χαμαίζηλος (sc. δίφρος, which is added by Plu.2.150a), ὁ, low seat, stool, Hp.Fract.37, Pl.Phd.89b.
b. χ. κρατῆρες flat bowls, Polem.Hist.83.
3. Ζεὺς χ., = χθόνιος, Orph.A.931; “Ποσειδῶν χ.” IG22.1367.
II. metaph., of low estate, humble, “ψυχή” Ph. 1.91, cf. 240, al., Luc.Somn.13; “τὰ χ.” Them.Or.15.184d; χ. δικαστής, = judex pedaneus, Lyd.Mag.2.15. Adv. “-λως” Ph.1.103.
III. χαμαίζηλον, τό, = γναφάλιον, Plin.HN27.88.
2. = πεντάφυλλον, ib.25.109.
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 (6):
    • Plato, Phaedo, 89b
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 13
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 37
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 25.109
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.88
    • Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, 13
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