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The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (GE), referred to by some as BrillDAG, is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca (GI). With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century...

of hair and sim.: σοί τε κόμην κερέειν for you I would have cut my hair IL. 23.146; κ. ἐν χροΐ (τρίχας) to shave hair to the skin or completely HDT. 4.175.1; κ. ἔθειράν τινος to cut the hair of s.o. EUR. Hel. 1124 etc. | usu. to shear, cut: δοῦρʼ ἐλάτης κέρσαντες having cut beams of fir IL. 24.450; σφέας αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἵππους κ. to shear themselves and their horses (as a sign of grief) HDT. 9.24; πολλὴν ὕλην κ. to cut much wood SOPH. Tr. 1196; κ. τὰ πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς ποιμένας to shear the sheep
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