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ἄπιος

ἄπιος, a pear-tree; a pear

ἄπιος2, far away, far off, distant; (pr.n.) Peloponnesian

ἄπιος (A), [ᾰ], ἡ,
  • pear-tree, Pyrus communis, Arist. HA 552b2, Thphr. HP 1.3.3, CP 1.15.2, Dsc. 1.116, Gal. 11.834.
      • 2 = ἄπιον, pear, Ar. Fr. 569.3; ἀπʼ Εὐβοίας ἀπίους Hermipp. 63.17, Alex. 33, Gal. 6.603.
    • II Euphorbia Apios, tuberous spurge, Thphr. HP 9.9.5, Dsc. 4.175.
    • III = ἀστράγαλος, Ps.-Dsc. 4.61.
ἄπιος (B), η, ον,
  • far away, far off, distant, τηλόθεν ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης Il. 1.270, 3.49, Od. 16.18, cf. S. OC 1685.
    • II Ἄπιος, α, ον, Apian, i.e. Peloponnesian, said (in this sense) to be derived from Ἆπις, Apis, a mythical king of Argos, A. Supp. 260, cf. Paus. 2.5.7; Ἀπία γῆ, Ἀπία χθών, or Ἀπία alone, the Peloponnese, esp. Argolis, A. Ag. 256, S. OC 1303, Ath. 14.650b, etc.; cf. Ἀπίς prob. in A.R. 4.1564. [The former word has ᾰ, the latter ᾱ; yet S. OC 1685 uses signf. I with ᾱ, and later Ep. Poets have signf. II with ᾰ, cf. Rhian. 13.] (Commonly derived from ἀπό, as ἀντίος from ἀντί; and Hsch. expl. ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης by ἀλλοτρίας ἢ ξένης ἢ μακρὰν οὔσης, cf. Str. 8.6.9.)

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