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δέλτος (B) (Cypr. δάλτος Inscr.Cypr.135.26 H.), ἡ,
A.writing-tablet, Batr.3 (pl.), Hdt.8.135, etc.; “ἐν . . δέλτου πτυχαῖς γράψας” E.IA98; “χαλκῆς . . δύσνιπτον ἐκ δέλτου γραφήν” S.Tr.683; δέλτον ἐγγεγραμμένην ξυνθήματα inscribed with . ., ib.157; “δέλτον ἀναθεῖναι” IG12(2).58b17 (Mytilene): esp. pl., E.IA116,798 (both lyr.); “πινάκων ξεστῶν δέλτοι” Ar.Th.778: metaph., ἣν ἐγγράφου σὺ μνήμοσιν δέλτοις φρενῶν on the tablets of the heart, A.Pr.789; θὲς (cj. for σὲ δ᾽）“ ἐν φρενὸς δέλτοισι τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους” S.Fr.597.
II. any writing: letter, Pl.Ep.312d; will, Luc.Tim.22, etc.; “δέλτον χαλκῆν ἐκσφραγισθεῖσαν” BGU265.21 (ii A.D.), cf. 780.15, 1032.3; Ὁμήρου δέλτον the books of Homer, IG9(1).880.10 (Corc.), cf. AP12.2 (Strato); αἱ δώδεκα δ. the Twelve Tables, D.H.2.27.
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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