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κενεών , ῶνος, ὁ, (κενός)
A.hollow between ribs and hip, flank, Od.22.295, Poll.2.166, etc.; “νείατον ἐς κενεῶνα, ὅθι ζωννύσκετο μίτρῃ” Il.5.857, cf. Hp.Prog.8 (pl.); of horses, X.Eq.12.8; of dogs, Id.Cyn. 4.1.
2. οἱ κ. τοῦ περιτοναίου the hollows of the peritonaeum, Heliod. ap. Orib.50.48.4.
II. any hollow, hence periphr. “οὐράνιοι” AP9.207; αἰθέριος, χθόνιος κ., Nonn.D.13.453, 9.82; κενεὼν ἀρούρης ib.41.3; vacant space in a crowd, LXX 2 Ma.14.44.
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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