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χωλός , ή, όν,
A.lame in the feet, halting, limping, c. acc., “χωλὸς δ᾽ ἕτερον πόδα” Il.2.217, cf. 9.503, Od.8.308, Hdt.5.92.β́, S.Ph.486, 1032; “χ. καὶ οὐκ ἀρτίπους” Hdt.4.161; “χ. τὼ σκέλει” Ar.Th.24; also c. dat., σκέλει “χωλός” Plu.2.739b; “χωλὸς ἀμφοτέροις” Luc.Tim.20: later also of the hand, like κυλλός, χωλὸς τὴν χεῖρα Eup.343; “χεῖρα χωλὴν ἕξειν” Hp.Prorrh.2.1, cf. Pl.Lg.794e: of animals, X.Eq.1.5, etc.
II. metaph., defective, “φύσις” Pl.Phd.71e; one-sided, Id.R.535d; βασιλεία Orac. ap. X.HG3.3.3.
2. of metre, esp. of the χωλίαμβος (q. v.), halting, “μέτρον” Heph.5.4, Demetr.Eloc.301; also of a trochaic metre, Aristid.Quint.1.25.
3. ἀείδειν χωλά, of a 'lame tale', Herod.1.71.
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 (14):
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 24
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.92
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.161
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.308
    • Plato, Laws, 794e
    • Plato, Republic, 535d
    • Plato, Phaedo, 71e
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.3.3
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 1.5
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.217
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.503
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1032
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 486
    • Lucian, Timon, 20
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