γλαυκόχρως

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ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it

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γλαυκόχρως
   1 grey-coloured, silver-grey cf. Leumann, Hom. Wörter, 152. γλαυκόχροα κόσμον ἐλαίας (O. 3.13) cf. Bacch. 11. 29.