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λίνον .λίνον (ῐ), ου, τό, anything made of flax: a cord, fishing-line, Il.: the thread spun from a distaff, Eur., etc.; and in pl., Eur.:—metaph. the thread of destiny spun by the Fates, Hom., Theocr.:—proverb., λίνον λίνῳ συνάπτειν, i. e. to join like with like, to deal with matters of like kind, Plat. a fishing-net, Il.:— a hunting-net, Theocr. linen, linen-cloth, Hom.: sail-cloth, Ar. flax for spinning, Ar. the plant that produces flax, Lat. linum, Hdt., etc.; λίνου σπέρμα lint-seed, Thuc. on λίνον ἄειδεν, v. Λίνος II.

ShortDef

anything made of flax; cord, line, net, sail-cloth

Debugging

Headword:

λίνον

Headword (normalized):

λίνον

Headword (normalized/stripped):

λινον

IDX:

19737

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n19757

Key:

li/non

Data

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