3. wrinkles beside the eyes, 'crow's feet'; this last sense is given by Poll. 2.67 (where vv. Il. οὔλιγγας, ὠλίγκας, ἔλιγγας, ὤριγγας) as found in poets, and the remark τὴν δὲ ὠλίγγην (v.l. ὠλλ-） δηλοῦν καὶ πνοὴν καὶ σκιὰν καὶ ἀκαρὲς πνεῦμα (EM and AB Il. cc.) may refer to the same poet. passage. Hsch. cites ὠλιγγία in all three senses, also ὠλιγγιάω , = νυστάζω, and ὠλιγγήϊος , α, ον, = ὀλίγος.
ὠλίγγη , ἡ, variously expld. in EM821.43, AB318,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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