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σπερματίας

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Sophocles, Antigone, 781
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Transliteration A: spermatías Transliteration B: spermatias Transliteration C: spermatias Beta Code: spermati/as

English (LSJ)

σικυός, ὁ, a cucumber or gourd

   A left to ripen for seed, opp. εὐνουχίας, Cratin.136.

German (Pape)

[Seite 920] ὁ, σικυός, Saamengurke, dem εὐνουχίας entggstzt, Cratin. bei Ath. II, 68 c.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σπερμᾰτίας: σικυός, ὁ, ἀγγούριον ἢ κολοκύνθιον ἀφιέμενον νὰ ὡριμάσῃ πρὸς συλλογὴν σπόρων, ἀντίθετον τῷ εὐνουχίας, Κρατῖν. ἐν «Ὀδυσσεῦσιν» 8, Ἡσύχ.