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ὄρεγ-μα , ατος, τό,
A.stretching out, “τὰ χερὸς ὀ.” A.Ch.426 (lyr.); προτείνει δὲ χεὶρ ἐκ χερὸς ὀρέγματα (as Herm. from Sch. for ὀρεγόμενα of cod. M) A.Ag.1111 (lyr.); “βημάτων ὄρεγμα” Id.Ch.799 (lyr., but the passage is corrupt); “ὄ. ποδός” APl.4.189 (Nic.): abs., διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ ὀ. of their reach or stride, of camels, Arist.HA632a31 ; v. ἁμιλλάομαι 11.
2. holding out, offering, “παρηΐδων” E.Ph.307 (lyr.).
II. a measure of length, a subdivision of the σχοῖνος, Tab.Heracl.2.33, al.
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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