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κεκρύφα^λος , ὁ,
A.woman's hair-net, “τῆλε δ᾽ ἀπὸ κρατὸς βάλε δέσματα σιγαλόεντα, ἄμπυκα, κεκρύφαλόν τε ἰδὲ πλεκτὴν ἀναδέσμην” Il.22.469, cf. Hp.Steril.219, Ar.Th.138, D.H.7.9; “κ. καὶ μίτρα” Ar.Th.257; λιθόβλητοι, λιθοκόλλητοι κ., AP5.269 (Paul. Sil.), 275 (Agath.).
2. part of the head-stall of a bridle, X.Eq.6.8; “ἱππικὸς κ.” IG22.1388.74, cf. Poll.1.184, 10.55.
II. second stomach of ruminating animals, from its net-like structure, Arist.HA507b4, PA674b14, Ael.NA5.41.
III. pouch or belly of a hunting-net, X.Cyn.6.7, Plu.Alex. 25. [υ^ in Hom., AP; but υ_ in Att., Ar.l.c., Eup.170, Antiph.117, 189.]
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 (8):
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 138
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 257
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.469
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 6.8
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.7
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 25
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.9
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 5.41
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