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Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, π , πτωχός , πυγμαῖος
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πυγμαῖος , αあるふぁ, οおみくろんνにゅー, (
A.“πυγμή” 11) a πυγμή long or tall, “ἀκρόθινα πぱい. κολοσσῷ ἐφαρμόζων” Philostr.VS1.19.2.
2. of men, dwarfish, Hdt.3.37, Arist. Pr.892a12, Phld.Sign.2.
II. pr. n. Πυγμαῖοおみくろんιいおた, οおみくろんἱ, the Pygmies, a fabulous race of dwarfs on the upper Nile, said to have been warred on and destroyed by cranes, Il.3.6, Arist.HA597a6, cf. Hdt.l.c.
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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