- λεύκη
- λεύκ-η, ἡ, a cutaneous disease, so called from its colour: a kind ofA leprosy or elephantiasis,
λέπρην ἢ λεύκην ἔχειν Hdt.1.138
;λειχῆνες καὶ λέπραι καὶ λεῦκαι Hp.Prorrh.2.43
;λ. ἀλφούς τε Pl.Ti.85a
; [ἐξάνθημα] ὃ καλεῖται λ. Arist.HA518a13
, cf. Pr.891a26.II white poplar, Populus alba, Thphr.HP1.10.1, al.; used for chaplets, Ar.Nu.1007, Eup.14.4, D.18.260, Theoc. 2.121; laterλεύκη λευκή Hippiatr.22
.2 a place at Athens where the taxes were let out to farmers of the revenue, prob. so called from a poplar in the place, And.1.133.III = ἀνδρόσακες, Ps.-Dsc.3.133.IV in pl., white spots on the nails, Alex.Aphr.Pr.1.146.V in pl., kind of κόγχοι, = ἀνδροφυκτίδες, Epich.42.11.VI name of various plasters, Gal.13.414, al.VII white clay or chalk, Gloss.
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