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χι_άζω ,
A.play the Chian: esp. imitate the Chian musician Democritus, Ar.Fr.912 (anap.), Poll.4.65.
II. χι_άζω, mark with two lines crossing like a X:—Pass., “ζῷα δυσὶ γραμμαῖς κεχιασμένα” D.S.2.58: esp. of words or lines in which the critic wishes to point out something remarkable, τὸ δὲ τοιοῦτον κεχίασται Sch.S.Ph.201; χιάζεται ὁ στίχος (in allusion to the word Ἑλένη) Sch.E.Or.81, etc.; absurdly expld. by Eust.1462.41.
2. Rhet., arrange four clauses crosswise, Hermog.Inv.4.3, Porph. in Cat.79.6.
3. make a cruciform incision, Antyll. ap. Orib.44.20.31 (χιεζοῦμεν codd.).
4. cross out, cancel a document, PFlor.61.65 (i A. D.), POxy.1282.34 (i A. D.), etc.
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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    • Euripides, Orestes, 81
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