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φλέως

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλέως

Sense

  1. flowering rush or reed

Examples

  • ἔλαθε τὸν Λαῖτον ὅτι καὶ τὰ λιμναῖα φυτά, τύφη καὶ φλέωσ καὶ θρύον, ἀναυξῆ καὶ ἀβλαστῆ μένει, μὴ γενομένων ὄμβρων καθ’ ὡρ́αν τὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλουσ ἀληθέσ, ὅτι πρόσφατόν ἐστι καὶ νέον ὕδωρ τὸ ὑόμενον ἑώλον δὲ καὶ παλαιὸν τὸ λιμναῖον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 2 3:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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