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                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
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                    "description": "τά (sg. μηρίον only in Posidon. 16 J.); in Hom. and Ar. also μῆρα; <b>thigh-bones<\/b>, ἐκ μηρία τάμνον… κατά τε κνίσῃ ἐκάλυψαν, δίπτυχα ποιήσαντες <i>Od.<\/i> 3.456; ἐπὶ μηρία θέντες Ἀπόλλωνι 21.267, cf. μῆρα ; εἴ ποτέ τοι κατὰ πίονα μηρί’ (i.e.<br\/><b>thigh-bones in their fat<\/b>) ἔκηα <i>Il.<\/i> 1.40, cf. <i>Od.<\/i> 4.764, al. ; πιανθέντα βοῶν ὅ γε μ. καίει Theoc. 17.126; but δημὸν καὶ μ. ἔκηα <i>Il.<\/i> 8.240; ἀγλαὰ μ. Hes. <i>Op.<\/i> 337, Thgn. 1145; κηκὶς μηρίων S. <i>Ant.<\/i> 1008; τῶν μηρίων ἡ κνῖσα Ar. <i>Av.<\/i> 193, cf. 1517. — On the distinction between μηρία and μηροί, cf. Apollon.Soph. <i>Lex.<\/i> s.v. μηρία, Ammon. <i>Diff.<\/i> p. 161 V., etc. = μηροί, <b>thighs<\/b>, φῦμα μηρίων μεταξύ Archil. 136, cf. Bion 1.84; βρέφους Sor. 1.100."
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                    "description": "1. <b>slices cut from the thighs <\/b>, (Homer) It was the custom to cut out the μηρία  ἐκ μηρία τάμνον); wrap them in two folds of fat  κνίσῃ ἐκάλυψαν, δίπτυχα ποιήσαντες); and burn them upon the altar. <br\/>2. = μηροί, <b>the thighs <\/b>, (Bion Bucolicus) (ML)"
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