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Κῷος , α, ον,
A.of, from the island Κῶς, Coan, IG12.195.7, al., Hdt.7.164, etc.; Κώϊος Call.Fr.254.
II. as Subst. Κῷος (sc. βόλος), ὁ, the highest throw with the ἀστράγαλοι, opp. Χῖος, Hsch.; τὰ κῷα are the inner, τὰ χῖα the outer, sides of the huckle-bones (ἀστράγαλοι), Arist.HA499b28 (κῶλα and ἰσχία codd.), cf. Cael.292a29 (v.l.).
III. Κῷον (sc. ἱμάτιον), τό, a light semi-transparent garment, made at Cos, Hsch.
2. a measure of wine, Ostr.Fay.44 (ii/iii A.D.), BGU531 ii 8: pl. written κόα, Sammelb.7199.2, al. (ii A.D.).
3. = ἐνέχυρον, Hsch. (also κώϊον); cf. κοῖον, κοῦα.
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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