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σφυ_ρ-ήλα^τος , ον, (σφῦρα, ἐλαύνω)
A.wrought with the hammer, σίδηρος, πέδαι, A.Th.816, Pers.747 (troch.).
2. of statues, opp. to those of cast metal (χωνευτά（“, εἰκὼ χρυσέην ς. ἐποιήσατο” Hdt.7.69; Παλλὰς χρυσῆ ς. AP14.2, cf. Str.8.6.20, D.S.18.26, etc.; “ς. οἷα κολοσσός” Theoc.22.47, cf. Epigr. ap. Phot. s.v. Κυψελιδῶν ἀνάθημα; ς. ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ στάθητι Pl.Phdr.236b.
II. metaph., wrought as of iron, “ς. ἀνάγκαι” Pi.Fr.207; “ς. φιλία” Plu.2.65b; ς. νοῦς, like Homer's πυκινὸς νόος, ib.408e,511b; “ς. λόγος” Luc.Dem.Enc.14.
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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