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|Definition=ὁ (also ἡ, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>250a20</span>, Dieuch. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.4.7.15</span>, Glauc. ap.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1802.42</span>, Dsc.2.97, Gal.6.791, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>3.112a</span>, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">VP</span>24.106</span>), <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[millet]], [[Panicum miliaceum]], usu. in pl., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>398</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>21</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.2.22</span>, etc.: sg., <span class="bibl">Hecat.154</span> J., <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.193</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">HP</span>1.11.2</span>, al., <span class="title">OGI</span>55.15 (Telmessus, iii B.C.); of a single grain, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.100</span>, <span class="bibl">Plot.6.3.11</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1.13</span>:—also κέρχνος, <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.41.27</span>, Gal.18(1).574; cf. [[κέρχνωμα]], [[κέρχνη]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[anything in small grains]]: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[spawn of fish]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.93</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[small beads]], <span class="bibl">Ath.12.525e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[speck]], [[sty]] in the eye, Adam.1.11, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[κεγχρίας]] 11 ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), Dsc.<span class="title">Ther.</span>15. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[small]] kind of [[diamond]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>37.57</span>.</span>