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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>ῆς (ἡ)<\/b> <font color='purple'>[ῐᾰ]<\/font> empan, <i>mesure d’une demi-coudée, ou de trois quarts de pied,<\/i> HDT. <i>2, 106 ;<\/i> PLAT. <i>1 Alc. 126<\/i> c ; ARSTT. <i>Pol. 5, 3 ; H.A. 8, 28, 5<\/i>.<p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>probabl. pré-grec<\/i>.<\/p>"
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                    "description": "ἡ, <b>space one can embrace between the thumb and little finger, span<\/b> (<i>EM<\/i> 647.34), as a fixed measure, = 3 παλαισταί (Hero <i>Def.<\/i> 131), first in Hdt. 2.106, Hp. <i>Mochl.<\/i> 38 (though the compd. τρισπίθαμος occurs in Hes. <i>Op.<\/i> 426); also in Pl. <i>Alc.<\/i> 1.126d, Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 606a14, <i>Pol.<\/i> 1302b38, Chrysipp. <i>Stoic.<\/i> 2.47, POxy. 669.32 (iii AD), etc. ;<i>metaph<\/i>, σ. τοῦ βίου Diogenian. 8.17."
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                    "description": "ἡ, <i>die Weite zwischen dem ausgespannten Daumen und dem kleinen Finger<\/i> ; Her. 2.106 ; περὶ σπιθαμῆς καὶ πήχεως, Plat. <i>Alc.I<\/i>, 126c ; Sp.; Römisch <i>dodrans<\/i>."
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