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στροβίλιον

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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.
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Transliteration A: strobílion Transliteration B: strobilion Transliteration C: strovilion Beta Code: strobi/lion

English (LSJ)

τό, Dim. of

   A στρόβιλος 6, small pine-cone, Dsc.Eup.2.112, Sor.1.123, PLit.Lond.171 (iii A.D.); σ. μεγάλα POxy.1142.6 (iii A.D.).    2 cone-shaped ear-ring, Com.Adesp.1154.