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πώγων , ωνος, ὁ,
A.beard, “πώγωνα μέγαν ἴσχει” Hdt.1.175; φύει π. grows a beard, Id.8.104; πώγωνα καθεῖναι to let it grow, Ar.Ec.99; “ὑποκαθιεὶς ἄτομα πώγωνος βάθη” Ephipp.14.7; “βαθὺν π. καθειμένος” Luc. Philops.5, cf. Pisc.11, Plu.Ant.18; “π. ποδήρης καθεῖται” Id.2.52c; πώγωνος ἤδη ὑποπιμπλάμενος just beginning to have a beard, Pl. Prt.309a; τὸν π. ξύρεσθαι, κατακείρειν, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.198, Plu. 2.52c (Pass.).
2. of animals, π. [ἱππελάφου] Arist.HA498b34; of the fish τράγος, Clearch.73; beard of the cock sparrow, Arist.HA613a31, cf. Clytus 1, etc.; wattles of a cock, Ammon.Diff. s.v. κάλλαια; growth under the chin of a serpent, Philum.Ven.30.2.
3. in plants, Gal.12.420, dub.l.in Thphr.HP6.4.5; γεραὸν πώγωνα, = τραγοπώγωνα, Nic.Fr.74.71.
4. barb of an arrow, Poll.7.158, Nonn.D.29.100 (pl.), Hsch.s.v. ὄγκους, etc.
5. πώγων φλογός, πυρός, beard or tail of fire, A.Ag.306, E.Fr.836.
6. name of a harbour at Troezen, Hdt.8.42 (whence prov. πλεύσειας εἰς Τροιζῆνα, of those wearing false beards, Eust.287.14; also εἰς Τ. δεῖ βαδίζειν, Suid.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 306
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 99
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.104
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.175
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.42
    • Plato, Protagoras, 309a
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 18
    • Lucian, Piscator, 11
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