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χοιρ-άς , άδος, ἡ,
A.like a hog or a hog's back, χ. πέτρα low rock rising just above the sea like a hog's back, Pi.P.10.52, cf. AP9.289 (Bass.)
2. Subst., χ. ἀμυδρά sunken rock, Archil.128, cf. Thgn. 576; opp. σκόπελοι ὀξέες, Hdt.2.29; “ἀκταὶ . . χοιράδες τε” A.Pers.421; χ. Δηλία the Delian rock, i. e. the rocky isle of Delos, Id.Eu.9; “Δήλιοι χ.” E.Tr.89; “χ. Σηπιάς” Id.Andr.1265; χοιράδες, of the Symplegades, Theoc.13.23; αἱ χ. νῆσοι, off Tarentum, Th.7.33.
II. in pl., scrofulous swellings in the glands of the neck, etc., Hp.Aph.3.26, AP11.333 (Callicter), Plu.Cic.9,26.
III. sow, PMag.Osl.1.107.
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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