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|Definition=ῶνος, ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[any moist]], [[grassy place]], [[meadow]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.467</span>, etc.; ἀμφὶ δὲ λειμῶνες μαλακοὶ ἴου ἠδὲ σελίνου θήλεον <span class="bibl">Od.5.72</span>; μαλακὸς λ. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>279</span>; βαθύς <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>653</span>; <b class="b3">λ. βούχιλος, βουθερής</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>540</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>188</span>: metaph., λειμῶνα Μουσῶν δρέπων <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1300</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς λειμῶνα ποταμίων ποτῶν</b> into the smooth river-water, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>659</span>; <b class="b3">χυτῆς λειμὼν θαλάσσης</b>, of a sponge, <span class="title">AP</span>6.66.7 (Paul. Sil.); πλούτου καὶ νεότητος λειμῶνας ἀφθόνους <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>222a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>248c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[flowers]], Ὧραι λειμῶνας βρύουσι <span class="bibl">Him.<span class="title">Or.</span>1.19</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[pudenda muliebria]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>171</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> later, freq. metaph. for [[any bright]], [[flowery surface]], as [[a blooming face]], [[a peacock's tail]], <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.1.19</span>, <span class="bibl">1.16</span>; [[an embroidered robe]], λ. ὁ περὶ τὰς ἐσθῆτας <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Im.</span>2.1</span>; also <b class="b3">λ. λέξεων</b>, title of work by Pamphilus, Suid.<span class="title">Praef.</span>, cf. Plin. [[HN Praef]].24, Gell. <span class="title">Praef.</span>6:—and as Dim. λειμωνάριον, τό, <span class="bibl">Phot.<span class="title">Bibl.</span>p.161</span> B.</span>