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χερμ-άδιον [α^], τό,
A.large stone, boulder, such as were used for missiles by the heroes of the Il., “ὀκριόεν” 4.518; “μεγάλα” 11.265, cf. 14.410; “ὁ δὲ χερμάδιον λάβε χειρὶ . . , μέγα ἔργον, ὃ οὐ δύο γ᾽ ἄνδρε φέροιεν” 5.302, 20.285; twice in Od., ἀνδραχθέσι χερμαδίοισι βάλλον, of the Laestrygones, 10.121, cf. 21.371.
II. = χερμάς 1, Aen. Tact.38.6.—Not a Dim. of χερμάς, but neut. of an Adj. χερμάδιος , ον, of the shape or size of a χερμάς, μολύβδαιναι χερμάδιοι leaden balls for arm-exercises, Luc.Lex.5.
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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