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ἀμητίσκος , ὁ, Dim. of ἄμης, Telecl.1.12, cf. Pherecr.130.7 codd. Ath. ἄμητος [α_], ὁ, (ἀμάω A)
A.reaping, harvesting, Il.19.223.
2. harvest, harvest-time, Hes.Op.384,575, Hdt.2.14, 4.42, Hp.Epid.6.8.19, Thphr.HP3.4.4, A.R.3.418, etc.
II. crop, harvest gathered in, or field when reaped, D.P.194, Arat.1097: with another Subst., “ληΐοιο ἀμήτοιο” Opp.C.1.527: metaph., of a beard, AP11.368 (Jul.). (Gramm. distinguish ἄμητος (1) from ἀμητός (11), the latter being regarded as Adj. (sc. σῖτος), cf. Hdn.Gr.1.220, but Ammon. reverses the distinction.) ἀμητρίς , ίδος, ἡ, fem. of ἀμητήρ, dub. l. in Poll.1.122.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.14
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.42
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 384
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 575
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.223
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.418
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