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λεύκη

leuke · ἡ

leprosy, elephantiasis, white poplar, Populus alba

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Where it lives

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What it meant

λεύκ-η · leuk-ē — LSJ

leprosy, elephantiasis

a cutaneous disease, so called from its colour: a kind of leprosy or elephantiasis, λέπρην ἢ λεύκην ἔχειν Hdt. 1.138; λειχῆνες καὶ λέπραι καὶ λεῦκαι Hp. Prorrh. 2.43; λ. ἀλφούς τε Pl. Ti. 85a; [ἐξάνθημα] ὃ καλεῖται λ. Arist. HA 518a13, cf. Pr. 891a26.

II white poplar, Populus alba

white poplar, Populus alba, Thphr. HP 1.10.1, al.; used for chaplets, Ar. Nu. 1007, Eup. 14.4, D. 18.260, Theoc. 2.121; later λεύκη λευκή Hippiatr. 22.

2 poplar

a place at Athens where the taxes were let out to farmers of the revenue, prob. so called from a poplar in the place, And. 1.133.

III

= ἀνδρόσακες, Ps.-Dsc. 3.133.

IV white spots

in pl., white spots on the nails, Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.146.

V

in pl., kind of κόγχοι, = ἀνδροφυκτίδες, Epich. 42.11.

VI

name of various plasters, Gal. 13.414, al.

VII white clay, chalk

white clay or chalk, Gloss.

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