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μυ^χός , ὁ, heterocl. pl.
A.“μυχά” Call.Del.142, D.P.117, 128, etc.:— innermost part, nook, corner, “μυχῷ δόμου ὑψηλοῖο” Il.22.440; “μ. σπείους γλαφυροῖο” Od.5.226; “μ. ἄντρου θεσπεσίοιο” 13.363; μυχῷ Ἄργεος in a recess or in the farthest nook of Argos-land, of Mycenae, 3.263; of Ephyre, Il.6.152, cf. Pi.N.6.26; “Τάρταρά τ᾽ ἠερόεντα μυχῷ χθονός” Hes.Th.119; τῆλε μυχῷ νήσων ἱεράων ib.1015; “ἐν μυχῷ τῆς θήκης” Hdt.3.16; “μ. μαντεῖος” Pi.P.5.68; “κελαινὸς Ἄϊδος μ. γᾶς” A.Pr.433 (lyr.): in pl., “Κορίνθου ἐν μυχοῖς” Pi.N.10.42; μυχοὶ χθονός or γῆς the infernal realms, E.Supp.926, Tr.952, etc.; “μαντικοὶ μυχοί” A.Eu.180; διὰ μυχῶν βλέπουσ᾽ ἀεὶ ψυχή a soul that sees in darkness, i.e. is full of deceit, S.Ph.1013.
2. inmost part of a house, “ἐς μυχὸν ἐξ οὐδοῖο” Od.7.96; “μυχοῦ ἄφερκτος” A.Ch.446 (lyr.; nisi leg. μυχῷ）“; τὸ φάρμακον . . ἐν μυχοῖς σῴζειν” S.Tr.686; οὐ γὰρ ἐν μ. ἔτι no longer hidden within the house (for the doors were thrown open, cf. Sch.), Id.Ant.1293, cf. E.Tr.299.
b. store-chamber, Xenoph.2.22, Pi.I. 1.56; “ὧν μ. πλουτεῖ” Phoen.2.18.
c. granary, Tab.Heracl.1.139.
3. creek running far inland, Hdt.2.11, 4.21; “ἐς μυχοὺς ἁλός” Pi.P.6.12; πόντιος μ., i.e. the Adriatic, A.Pr.839; “ἐν τῷ κοίλῳ καὶ μ. τοῦ λιμένος” Th.7.52; “ἐν τοῖς ἄγκεσι καὶ μ. τῶν ὀρέων” X.An.4.1.7; “ἐν τῷ μ. τοῦ Ἀδρίου” Arist.Mir.836a24.
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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