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κύρμα , ατος, τό, (κύρω)
A.that which one meets with or finds: hence, booty, prey, spoil, κ. γίγνομαι, c. dat., “ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσιν ἕλωρ καὶ κύρμα γένησθε” Il.5.488; “κυσὶ κύρμα γενέσθαι” 17.272; “οἰωνοῖσιν ἕλωρ καὶ κ. γ.” Od.3.271; “θήρεσσιν” 5.473; “φώκῃσι καὶ ἰχθύσι” 15.480.
II. of a person, one who gets booty, swindler, Ar.Av.431.
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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