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φα^κός , ὁ ( φακόν , τό, Pap. in Philol.80.340 (s. v.l.)),
A.lentil, Ervum Lens, and its fruit, Solon 38.3, Hdt.4.17, IG12.334.7, Thphr.HP8.1.4, Diocl.Fr.117, etc.; “φακὸν ἕψειν” Theoc.10.54; “ἕψημα φακοῦ” LXX Ge.25.34; “ἀφέψημα φακοῦ” Sor. 1.121.
b. pl. = φακῆ, lentil-soup, Pherecr.67.3, Amphis40, Gal.6.770, Vict.Att.7.
2. φ. ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τελμάτων, duckweed, Lemna minor, Dsc.1.12, 4.87.
II. anything shaped like lentils:
1. hot-water bottle, POxy.1088.46 (i A. D.); “φ. ὀστράκινος” Hp.Nat.Mul.34; “πυρίη φακῶν τῶν κεραμήων” Aret.CA2.5; “φ. τοῦ ἐλαίου” oil-flask, LXX 1 Ki.10.1; τοῦ ὕδατος ib.26.11.
2. spot on the body, mole, birthmark, PPetr.3p.2, al. (iii B. C.), Dsc.1.13, 5.118, Plu.2.563a, 800e, Gal.11.845, etc.
3. ornament on beds, Theodor.Hierap. ap. Ath.10.413b. (Cf. Albanian baθε 'Vicia Faba'.)
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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