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γυ^ναικ-ωνῖτις , ιδος , ἡ,
A.women's apartments in a house, opp. ἀνδρών (cf. γυναικών), Lys.1.9, Men.519, Ph.1.107, etc.; harem of an eastern prince, i.e. the women, Plu.Cat.Mi.30,2.819d; at Jerusalem, the women's court in the Temple, J.BJ5.5.2.
2. as Adj., ἡ γ. αὐλή the court of the women's apartments, D.S.17.50; “ἑστία” Ph.1.312.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.50
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.5.2
    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 9
    • Plutarch, Cato Minor, 30
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