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τήθυον , τό, an animal of the kind called
A.ascidia or sea-squirt, Arist.HA531a18 (v.l. τηθέου), PA680a5, al.; once in Hom., “τηθεα διφῶν” Il.16.747 (= εἶδος θαλασσίων ὀστρέων, Sch.), cf. Arist.Fr.304. (For the variation τήθυον: τήθεον, cf. πτύον: πτέον, etc.; tethea is pl. in Plin.HN32.117, nom. sg. fem. ib.151.)
II. τηθύα: τενάγη, ἂ προχέουσιν οἱ ποταμοί, Hsch.
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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