Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, λώβ-η

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A.outrage, dishonour, “αἶσχος λώβη τε” 18.225; λώβην λωβᾶσθαι (v. λωβάομαι）; τείσετε λ. ye shall pay for the outrage, Il.11.142; “ἀπὸ πᾶσαν ἐμοὶ δόμεναι . . λ.” 9.387; but λ. τείσασθαι exact retribution for an outrage, i.e. avenge it, 19.208, Od.20.169, S.Aj.181 (lyr.); ἐπὶ λώβᾳ for ruin or destruction, Id.Ant.792 (lyr.), cf. E.Hec.647 (lyr.); “ὡς ἐπὶ λώβᾳ” Id.HF882 (lyr.); “λ. καὶ διαφθορά” Pl.Men.91c, etc.; esp. mutilation, maiming, Hdt.3.154: pl., S.Aj.1392; “λώβας λωβηθείς” Pl.Grg.473c.

2. of persons, a disgrace, “λώβην τ᾽ ἔμεναι καὶ ὑπόψιον” Il.3.42, cf. E.El.165 (lyr.), Herod.7.95; ποιητῶν λῶβαι, of the Grammarians, AP11.322 (Antiphan.); οὐ γὰρ Ἀρκάδεσσι λώβα no insult to the Arcadians, Alc. 38.

II. a form of leprosy, Gal.14.757.

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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