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λεπῐδωτός

lepidotos

scaly, covered with scales, with large scales

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What it meant

λεπῐδωτός · lepidōtos — LSJ

scaly

scaly, δέρμα, of the crocodile, Hdt. 2.68; ἰχθύες Arist. HA 505a24, al.; σῶμα Paul.Aeg. 6.78.

2 covered with scales

θώρηξ λ. a cuirass covered with scales, Hdt. 9.22, cf. D.C. 78.37.

II with large scales, Cyprinus bynni

as Subst. λ., ὁ, a fish of the Nile with large scales, Hdt. 2.72; = κυπρῖνος, Dorio ap. Ath. 7.309b. (Prob. Cyprinus bynni.)

2 gem

a kind of gem, Orph. L. 287.

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