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|mdlsjtxt=[[πόρος]], ὁ, [[περάω]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[means]] of [[passing]] a [[river]], a [[ford]], [[ferry]], Lat. [[vadum]], Il., Hdt., etc.; Πλούτωνος π. the Stygian [[ferry]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[narrow]] sea, [[strait]], [[firth]], Lat. [[fretum]], Hes., Aesch.; [[Ἰόνιος]] π. the Ionian sea [[which]] is the [[passage]]-way from [[Greece]] to [[Italy]], Pind.:— ἐν πόρῳ in the [[passage]]-way (of ships), in the "[[fair]]-way" Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> periphr., πόροι [[ἁλός]] the paths of the sea, i. e. the sea, Od.; ἐνάλιοι π. Aesch., etc.; so, of rivers, [[πόρος]] Ἀλφεοῦ, Σκαμάνδρου, i. e. the [[Alpheus]], etc., Pind.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a way [[over]] a [[river]], a [[bridge]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> [[generally]] a [[pathway]], way, Aesch., Soph.; [[πόρος]] οἰωνῶν [[their]] [[pathway]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> a [[passage]] [[through]] the [[skin]], οἱ πόροι the pores, Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> c. gen. rei, a way or [[means]] of achieving, accomplishing, οὐκ ἐδύνατο π. οὐδένα ἀνευρεῖν Hdt.; π. ὁδοῦ a [[means]] of performing the [[journey]], Ar.; π. κακῶν a [[means]] of [[averting]] evils, Eur.:—c. inf., [[πόρος]] τις τίσασθαι Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> absol. a [[means]] of providing, [[contrivance]], [[device]], [[resource]], Aesch., Ar.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> at [[Athens]], π. χρημάτων a way of getting or [[raising]] [[money]], Xen., Dem.: in pl., "ways and [[means]], " [[resources]], [[revenue]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> a [[going]], [[journey]], [[voyage]], Aesch., Eur.

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