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ξιφίον

From LSJ

Μούνη γὰρ ἄγειν οὐκέτι σωκῶ λύπης ἀντίρροπον ἄχθος → I have no longer strength to bear alone the burden of grief that weighs me down

Sophocles, Electra, 119-120

German (Pape)

[Seite 280] τό, richtiger ξίφιον accentuirt, dim. von ξίφος, Schwertchen. Auch eine Pflanze, gladiolus communis, Diosc.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ξῐφίον: τό, ὑποκορ. τοῦ ξίφος, ἔνυδρόν τι φυτόν, Cladiolus communis, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Αἰτ. 6. 8, 1.