The corpus record

δηγμός

degmos · ὁ

bite, sting

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What it meant — LSJ

bite, sting

bite, sting, μυίας Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.51.

2 gnawing pain, suffering, painful operations

gnawing pain, Hp. Coac. 626, Thphr. HP 4.4.5; of mental suffering, Stoic. 3.107, Phld. Mort. 25, 35, Lib. p.48O., Ph. 1.212 (pl.); of a speech, δ. προσάγειν Plu. Adul. 2.69a, cf. Alc. 4: in pl., painful operations, Id. Per. 15.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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