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  "headword": "καλάμη",
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          "definition": "<i>stalk,</i> esp. <i>the stalk</i> or <i>straw of corn,</i> metaph. in Hom., αἶψά τε φυλόπιδος πέλεται κόρος ἀνθρώποισιν, ἧς τε πλείστην μὲν καλάμην χθονὶ χαλκὸς ἔχευεν, ἄμητος δʼ ὀλίγιστος, i.e. when there is much <i>straw</i> and little harvest, much <i>slaughter</i> and little profit, Il. 19.222; κ. πυρῶν wheat- <i>straw,</i> Hdt. 4.33; σῖτος σὺν τῇ καλάμῃ ἀποκείμενος X. An. 5.4.27; καλάμαν τε καὶ ἱερὰ δράγματα . . ἀσταχύων Call. Cer. 20; prov. of a greedy farmer, πυροὺς ἐπὶ καλάμῃ ἀροῦν to exhaust ground by one corn-crop after another, Lys. Fr. 77: pl., σῖτος ἐπὶ ταῖς κ. D.H. 5.13.",
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                "quote": "σῖτος σὺν τῇ καλάμῃ ἀποκείμενος",
                "ref": "X. An. 5.4.27",
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                "quote": "καλάμαν τε καὶ ἱερὰ δράγματα . . ἀσταχύων",
                "ref": "Call. Cer. 20",
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                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>stubble,</i> Arist. Mete. 341b27, PSI 4.380.6 (iii B.C.), 1 Ep.Cor. 3.12, etc.: metaph., of an old man, καλάμην γέ σʼ ὀΐομαι εἰσορόωντα γιγνώσκειν thou mayst still, I ween, perceive <i>the stubble</i> ( i.e. <i>the residue</i>) of former strength, Od. 14.214; τὸ γῆρας καλάμη Arist. Rh. 1410b14; τὴν κ. δωρῇ, δοὺς ἑτέροις τὸ θέρος AP 11.36 ( Phil.); Ῥήσου κ. <i>the remains</i> of Rhesus, i.e. his <i>corpse,</i> Orac. ap. Polyaen. 6.53; ἀπὸ τῆς κ. τεκμαίρεσθαι to judge from <i>the remains,</i> Luc. Alex. 5.",
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                        "quote": "τὸ γῆρας καλάμη",
                        "ref": "Arist. Rh. 1410b14",
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                        "quote": "τὴν κ. δωρῇ, δοὺς ἑτέροις τὸ θέρος",
                        "ref": "AP 11.36",
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                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "κολχὶς κ., = λίνον, Call. Fr. 265.",
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              "label": "II",
              "definition": "Hld. 8.9.",
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