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Ἀθήνη , ἡ, Athene, Il.1.194, etc.; Παλλὰς Ἀ. ib.400, etc.:—also Ἀθηναίη , Παλλὰς Ἀ. ib.221,200, etc.:—Att. Ἀθηναία , A.Eu.288, Ar.Eq.763, Pax271;
A.“Ἀ. Πολιάς” Av.828, cf. X.An.7.3.39, and earlier Attic Inscrr.: contr. Ἀθηνᾶ , which in cent. iv superseded the fuller form: Dor. Ἀθάνα (this form and Ἀθηναία are the only ones used in Trag.); “Ἀθαναία” IG1.373105, Theoc. 15.80: Aeol. Ἀθανάα [να^], Alc.9, Theoc.28.1 (also in some Attic Inscrr., as IG1.351; Ἀθηνάα ib.373120).
2. Ἀθηνᾶς ψῆφος casting vote, from that of A. given for Orestes, Philostr. VS2.3.
3. = Ἀθῆναι, q.v.
4. Pythag. name for 7 (cf. ἀειπάρθενος), TheoSm.p.103 H.
5. name of a plaster, Orib.Fr.88.
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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