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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>ῆνος (ὁ) :<br\/>      1<\/b> roi, CALL. <i>Jov. 66 ;<\/i><br\/><b>      2<\/b> prêtre d’Artémis, <i>à Éphèse,<\/i> PAUS. <i>8, 13, 1<\/i>."
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                    "description": "ῆνος, ὁ, <b>priest of Artemis<\/b> of Ephesus, in pl., SIG 352.6 (iv BC), 363.10 (iii BC), Paus. 8.13.1.<br\/><b>king<\/b>, θεῶν ἐ. Call. <i>Jov.<\/i> 66 ; Μυρμιδόνων ἐ. Id. <i>Aet.<\/i> 1.1.23 (expld. as, = οἰκιστής by Hdn. <i>Gr.<\/i> 2.923) ; prop.<br\/><b>king bee<\/b> (i.e.<br\/><b>queen bee<\/b>), acc. to <i>EM<\/i> 383.31. (ἑσσήν in Call. <i>Aet.<\/i> 1.1.23 (Pap.), perh. because of supposed connexion with ἑσμός, ἕσσαι, or ἡσσάω.)"
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                    "description": "ῆνος, ὁ, transliteration of Hebr. <font face='Times Νew Roman'><i>ḥōšen<\/i><\/font>, worn by Jewish priests, J. <i>AJ<\/i> 3.7.5, 3.8.9, where it is said to mean λόγιον, by which word it is rendered in LXX Ex. 28.15."
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