A.filling the hand, as large as can be held in the hand, “λίθοι” X.An.3.3.17; “κορύνη” Theoc. 25.63; “ἀγκάλισμα” Luc.Am.14; “χ. μέγεθος” handful, Thphr.HP4.2.7; so “χ. δέσμη” Dsc.1.8, etc.; neut., “ἀλφίτων χειροπληθές” Gp.14.17.2. Adv. -θῶς by handfuls, Sch.Luc.Tim.20.
χειρο-πληθής , ές,
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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