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|Full diacritics=ἡθμός
|Medium diacritics=ἡθμός
|Low diacritics=ηθμός
|Capitals=ΗΘΜΟΣ
|Transliteration A=hēthmós
|Transliteration B=hēthmos
|Transliteration C=ithmos
|Beta Code=h(qmo/s
|Definition=<span class="title">SIG</span>2 (Sigeum, vi B.C.), Hdn.Gr.1.543, in codd. usually (but perhaps wrongly) ἠθμός, ὁ, (ἤθω) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[strainer]], [[colander]], <span class="title">SIG</span> l.c., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 374</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1416.11, 4.39.20, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">Nat.Fac.</span>1.15</span>; esp. [[wine-strainer]], <span class="bibl">Pherecr.41</span>; part of an eel-trap, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>534a22</span>; of the eyelashes, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>1.4.6</span>; [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">τῷ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν</b>, of fruitless toil, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Oec.</span> 1344b25</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">ἠ. σχοίνινος</b>,= κημός ''III'', <span class="bibl">Cratin.132</span>, cf. <span class="title">AP</span>9.482.23 (Agath.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[sluice]] or [[weir]] (?), <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).287 <span class="title">A</span>75 (Delos, iii B.C.).</span>
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|btext=<i>anc. att. c.</i> [[ἠθμός]].
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