γάϊος
gaios
on land
Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
γάϊος[ᾱ], α, ον, Dor.for γήϊος, A. on land, Supp. 826(lyr.); earthy, γ. κόνις Th. 736; of the land, κόγχοι 42.9; παῖς γ. child of earth, terrae filius, of a slave, prob. in IG 14.1432 (cf. γάϊος παρὰ Ἰταλιώταις καὶ Ταραντίνοις ὁ μίσθιος 188.30, cf. EM 223.24); ἄνεμος a land wind, ; also, = ἐργάτης βοῦς, Id., EMl.c. II. τὸν γάϊον, = καταχθόνιον, prob. in Supp. 156(lyr.).
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