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σπι^λάς (A), άδος, ἡ,
A.rock over which the sea dashes (opp. ὕφαλοι πέτραι in AP11.390 (Lucill.)), “νῆάς γε ποτὶ σπιλάδεσσιν ἔαξαν κύματα” Od.3.298; “δοῦπον ἄκουσε ποτὶ σπιλάδεσσι θαλάσσης” 5.401 (v. πάγος); “ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλαῖς σπιλάδεσσι” S.Fr.371 (lyr.); πλαγκταὶ ς. A.R.4.932; “ς. εἰν ἁλὶ πέτρη” Id.3.1294; ῥεῖθρον ἀπὸ ς. Theoc.Ep.4.6: generally, slab, S.Tr.678; ὧδ᾽ ὑπὸ τὸ σπιλάδος μέλαθρον, i.e. under this tombstone, Sammelb.6160 (Egypt); hollow rock, cave, Simon.(?) 179.
II. as Adj., stony, or perh. marly, sc. γῆ, Thphr.CP2.4.4.
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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    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.298
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.401
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 678
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 371
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.1294
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