griphus

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Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτίμησεν... → The Council and the People honored... (inscription in the Roman city of Aizonai)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

grīphus: i, m., = γρῖφος (a net; hence transf.),
I an intricate or puzzling question, a riddle, enigma (post-class. and very rare): griphos dissolvere, Gell. 1, 4, 4; v. App. Flor. 9; Aus. Idyll. 11.