κρημνός

kremnos

overhanging bank

Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.

Frequency by work

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Iliad 3
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Book 12 1
Chapter ?

1254
Book 21 2
Chapter ?

2126
21244

Dictionary (LSJ)

κρημνός (A), ὁ, heterocl.pl. κρημνά, τά, A. v.l. for κρημνούς in Eus. Mynd.63:—overhanging bank, in Hom. (only Il.) of the bank of a river, edge of a trench, 12.54, 21.175,234,244, cf. Pi. O. 3.22; κ. θαλάσσας Id. Fr. 201; κ. μαλακοί Arist. HA 615b31; later, beetling cliff, crag, ἀπὸ τοῦ κ. ὠθέειν Hdt. 4.103; ἀναθεῖναι ἐπὶ κρημνόν τινʼ Ar. Pl. 69; κατὰ τῶν κ. ἅλλεσθαι down from the cliffs of Epipolae, Th. 7.45; κατὰ κ. ῥιφέντες Pl. Lg. 944a; οἱ K., the Screes, on the Sea of Azof, Hdt. 4.20, 110. 2. in pl., edges of an ulcer, Hp. Loc.Hom. 29. 3. labia pudendi, ib.47, Poll. 2.174, Ruf. Onom. 112.

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