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πλα^τα^μών , ῶνος, ὁ, (πλατύς)
A.any broad flat body or space, esp. flat stone, h.Merc.128, A.R.1.365; flat reef of rocks at the water's edge, Arat.993, Gal.19.131: pl., ledges of rock, Str.5.2.6, 12.2.8.
2. flat beach, in pl., AP7.404 (Zon.), v.l. in Dsc.4.73.
3. shallow reservoir, fish-pond, Arist.HA592a4, cf.AB1313.
4. flat land, liable to be overflowed, Plb.10.48.7, D.P.626.
5. pl., level sea, Opp.H.1.121, 5.650.
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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