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λα^γα^ρός , ά, όν,
A.hollow, sunken, of an animal's flanks, X.Cyn.4.1; of the right ventricle, -ωτέρη Hp.Cord.4; “λαγαρᾷ . . τῇ γαστρί” Philostr. Im.2.21; τὰς λ. (sc. γαστέρας) Ar.Ec.1167; λ. κύκλοι sunken, flattish, of the tortoise, Philostr.Im.1.10; λ. ποπάνευμα (cf. “λαγαρίζομαι” 1) AP 6.231 (Phil.): Comp., Hp. l.c.: Sup., κατὰ τὸ -ώτατον in the least defensible part, Plu.Cam.25.
2. slack, loose, “αὐχὴν λ. τὰ κατὰ τὴν συγκαμπήν” X.Eq.1.8; of camels, D.S.2.54. Adv. -“ρῶς, ἱππασθείς” Philostr.Im.2.2.
b. metaph., “τὴν πόλιν ἀντὶ λαγαρᾶς καὶ ὑποσόμφου μεστὴν ἐποίησεν ἀγλαΐας” Them.Or.18.222d. Adv. Comp. -ώτερον, opp. σφοδρότερον, πλῆξαι τὴν χορδήν Theo Sm.p.72 H.
3. thin, narrow, δρυμῶνες (cj.) X.Cyn.6.5; of columns, lanky, D.H.16.3, Plu.Publ.15; of men, emaciated, Thphr.HP9.10.3.
4. in Metric, στίχος λ., opp. προκοίλιος, a 'thin-waisted' verse, with a short syllable for a long one in the interior, like Il.23.493, cf. Ar.Ec.1167, Plu.2.397d, Ath.14.632e, Sch.Heph.p.289 C.
5. in Arist.HA622b23 (Comp., s.v.l.), where it is an epith. of spiders, some expl. it to mean lank, meagre, some agile, nimble.
6. of plasters, porous, absorbent, Orib.Fr.74. (Cf. λαγαίω, Lat. laxus, ONorse slak-r, Engl. slack: perh. akin to λήγω.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 1167
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.493
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 1.8
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 4.1
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.5
    • Plutarch, Publicola, 15
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 25
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.54
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 16.3
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.10
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