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πομπ-εία , ἡ,
A.leading in procession, solemn procession, Plb.30.25.2.
II. abuse, ribaldry, such as was allowed to those who took part in the processions at the festivals of Dionysus and Demeter, D.18.11, Men.Per.Fr.4 (pl.): metaph., ἡ τοῦ δαίμονος καθ᾽ ἡμῶν π. the mock that fate makes of us, Hld.5.6, cf. Philostr.VS2.27.
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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