Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κομήτης

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A.wearing long hair, of the Persians, Orac. ap.Hdt.6.19; of dissolute men, Pherecr.14, Ar.Nu.348, 1101, etc.; ὁ ἐν Σάμῳ κ., prov. variously expld., Duris 62 J., etc.; also, simply, with hair on the head, opp. φαλακρός, Pl.R.454c, cf. Grg.524c; “κ. τὰ σκέλη” Luc.Bacch.2.

2. metaph., κ. ἰός a feathered arrow, S.Tr. 567; κ. λειμών a grassy meadow, E.Hipp.210 (anap.); “θύρσος κισσῷ κομήτης” Id.Ba.1055.

II. κομήτης, with or without ἀστήρ, ὁ, comet, Arist.Mete.343b5, Epicur.Ep.2p.52U., etc.

III. = τιθύμαλλος χαρακίας, Dsc.4.164.1.

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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