LOGOI

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λοφ-ῐά

lophia · ἡ

mane, bristly ridge, bristly back, the mane, back-fin, ridge

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λοφ-ῐά · loph-ia — LSJ

mane, bristly ridge, mane, bristly back, the mane

mane or bristly ridge on the back of animals, mane of horses, bristly back of boars and hyenas (cf. Arist. PA 658a30, HA 498b30, 579b16), φρίξας εὖ λοφιήν, of a wild boar, Od. 19.446; ὀρθὰς ἐν λοφιῇ φρίσσει τρίχας ἀμφί τε δειρήν Hes. Sc. 391; ἀντὶ λόφου ἡ λοφιὴ κατέχρα the mane served for a plume, Hdt. 7.70, cf. 2.71.

2 back-fin

back-fin of dolphins and similar fishes, D.S. 3.41, AP 9.222 (Antiphil.), Philostr. Im. 1.19.

II ridge

= λόφος II, ridge, LXX Jo. 15.2, al., AP 9.249 (Maec.).

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