quite crooked, dwarfed and twisted
quite crooked, π. ἐλαία the sacred olive-tree in the citadel at Athens, because of its dwarfed and twisted shape, Ar. Fr. 727.
The corpus record
πάγ-κῡφος
pagkuphos
quite crooked
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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