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πίνος , ὁ,
A.dirt, filth, in clothes or hair, S.OC1259, E.El.305; of the natural grease in wool, Paul.Aeg.7.17.88: metaph., σὺν πίνῳ χερῶν, i.e. by foul means, A.Ag.776(lyr.).
2. patina on bronze statues, Plu.2.395b: hence, metaph. of style, ὁ τῆς ἀρχαιότητος π. D.H.Dem. 5, cf.39, Comp.11, al.
3. Alch., wash on metals, Olymp.Alch.p.75 B. [πίνος Hdn.Gr.2.945, and ι^ in Poets, S.l.c., A.R.2.200, etc.: πῖνος is incorrect in Phryn.PS p.37 B. cod., EM672.39.]
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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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 2.945
    • Euripides, Electra, 305
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1259
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 776
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.200
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 39
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 11
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