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χι^όν-εος , α, ον, (χιών)
A.snowy, snow-white, “χιτῶνες” Asius 13.3; “σάρξ” Bion 1.10; “στήθεα” Scol.Anon.26 (Diehl Anthologia Lyrica (ed. 1） ii 188).
2. of or from snow, “ὕδατα” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.12; “νιφάδες” AP9.244 (Apollonid.); κρύσταλλος ib.753 (Claudian.). [ι^ by nature, but ι_ metri gr. in hexam.]
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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