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κυρβα^σία , ἡ,
A.Persian bonnet or hat, with a peaked crown, prob. much like the τιάρα (q.v.), Hdt.5.49, 7.64; ὥσπερ βασιλεὺς ὁ μέγας διαβάσκει ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς τὴν κ. τῶν ὀρνίθων μόνος ὀρθήν (sc. ὁ ἀλεκτρυών) Ar.Av.487 (cf. Sch.); a cover for a poultice for a woman's breast is compared to it in shape, Hp.Mul.2.186, cf. Aret.CA1.10.
II. = Lat. apex (of the flamines), D.H.2.70.
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 (5):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 487
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.64
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.10
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.70
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