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χειμών , ῶνος, ὁ, (χεῖμα)
A.winter, “χειμῶνος δυσθαλπέος ὅς ῥά τε ἔργων ἀνθρώπους ἀνέπαυσεν” Il.17.549; “χειμῶνι” in winter, 21.283; “ἐν χειμῶνι” Pi.I.2.42, A.Ag.969, X.Mem.4.3.8; “ἐν τῷ χ.” Id.Cyr.8.8.17; “χειμῶνος ὥρᾳ” And.1.137; also “χειμῶνος” in winter-time, X.Mem.3.8.9, Pl.R. 415e; χ. μέσου in mid-winter, Ar.Fr.569.1; “τοῦ χ.” in the course of the winter, Th.7.31; “τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ.” Id.8.30; διὰ χειμῶνος, διὰ τοῦ χ., Pl. Ti.74c, X.HG3.2.9; “χειμῶνα” during winter, S.OT1138 (v.l. χειμῶνι）; τὸν χ. during the winter, Hdt.3.117, X.HG1.4.1; “τὸν δεινὸν χ.” Id.An. 7.6.9; “τὸν χ. ὅλον” Ar.Fr.345; “ὁ ἀμφὶ τὸν χ. χρόνος” X.Cyr.8.6.22; ὄρος ἄβατον ὑπὸ χειμῶνος in consequence of the cold weather, Hdt.8.138, cf. Th.2.101: pl., “νιφοστιβεῖς χειμῶνες” S.Aj.671; opp. καύματα, Pl.Lg.829b; “ἀμυντικὴ χειμώνων” Id.Plt.280e.
2. the wintry quarter of the heavens, the north, “Βορέης καὶ χ.” Hdt.2.26.
II. wintry, stormy weather: generally, storm, “ἐπεὶ οὖν χειμῶνα φύγον καὶ ἀθέσφατον ὄμβρον” Il.3.4; “οὐ νιφετὸς οὔτ᾽ ἂρ χ. πολὺς οὔτε ποτ᾽ ὄμβρος” Od.4.566; “ὅτε τις χ. ἔκπαγλος ὄροιτο” 14.522; “ὀπωρινὸν ὄμβρον καὶ χειμῶν᾽ ἐπιόντα” Hes.Op.675, cf. Alc.18, Sapph.Supp.11.6, etc.; “Γαιάοχος εὐδίαν ὄπασσεν ἐκ χειμῶνος” Pi.I.7(6).39; “θεὸς χειμῶν᾽ ὦρσε” A.Pers.496, cf. Ag.649, 656, S.Aj.1145, etc.; “χ. ὀρνιθίας” Ar.Ach.876; “χ. κατερράγη” Hdt.1.87; “ἐπέπεσέ σφι χ. τε μέγας καὶ πολλὸς ἄνεμος” Id.7.188, cf. Pl.Prt.344d; “ἐπιγενόμενος χ.” Hdt.7.34, Th.4.6; “χειμῶνι χρησάμενοι” Antipho 5.21; χ. νοτερός a storm of rain, Th.3.21; “ἐν εὐδίᾳ χειμῶνα ποιεῖν” X.HG2.4.14: pl., ὑπὸ τῶν χ. because of the winter-storms, Hdt.4.62; “ἔν γε χειμῶσιν καὶ ἐν εὐδίαις” Pl.Lg. 961e, cf. 919a.
2. metaph., θεόσσυτος χ. storm of calamity sent by the gods, A.Pr.643; χ. καὶ κακῶν τρικυμία ib.1015, cf. Ch.202 (pl.), 1066 (anap.); δορὸς . . ἐν χειμῶνι in the storm of battle, S.Ant. 670; θολερῷ . . χ. νοσήσας, of the madness of Ajax, Id.Aj.207 (anap.); χ. γήρως βαρύς, of life's winter, AP10.100 (Antiphan.); of a person, “χ. ὁ μειρακίσκος ἐστὶ τοῖς φίλοις” Alex.178.7, cf. 46.4; “χ. κατ᾽ οἴκους . . κακὴ γυνή” Men.Mon.540: rare in Prose, of battle, Onos. 32.10; of mental and moral trouble, Epicur.Ep.3p.62U., Polystr.p.19W.; χ. τοῦ κλύδωνος χαλεπώτερος, of pirates, Them.Or.23.286a: pl., χειμῶνας ἔχειν to have trouble (in cutting teeth), Hp.Dent.12.
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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