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πάχος [α^], εος, τό, （παχύς)
A.thickness, τόσσον ἔην μῆκος τόσσον π. Od.9.324 ; “εἰ ἔχοι π. ἔχοι ἂν μόρια” Meliss.9 ; “τὸ π. τοῦ τείχους” Th.1.93 ; “τῆς πλίνθου” Id.3.20 : pl., “τὰ π. τῶν τριχῶν” Arist.HA517b8 ; τὰ π. “αὐτῶν ἐκμυελιεῖ” LXX Nu.24.8 ; “σκήνεια ὀρθὰ καὶ πάχη ἔχοντα” PCair.Zen.353.11 (iii B. C.) : abs., πάχος in thickness, Hdt.4.81, IG12.372.11 ; also “πάχει μάκει τε” Pi.P.4.245.
2. σαρκὸς π. stoutness, E.Cyc. 380 ; “διὰ πάχος τοῦ σώματος” Antiph.19 ; opp. λεπτότης, Pl.R.523e, etc.
3. consistency, thickness, of liquids or fluids, Arist.Sens.441a29, GA739a12 ; τὸ π. τῆς θαλάσσης, attributed to its saltness, Id.Mete. 359a7 ; “ὥστε γίνεσθαι τὸ π. ὡς κυκεῶνα” Ph.Bel.89.21.
4. in concrete sense, thick mass, Dsc.5.18.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 380
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.81
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.324
    • Plato, Republic, 523e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.93
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.20
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 24.8
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