Definition of harpax
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Orthography ID = 2025022
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LNS
harpax, harpagis
harpax
ἅρπαξ
adjective (3rd 1-termination)
  1. drawing to itself, rapacious
Abbreviations
harpax, agis, adj., = ἅρπαξ, drawing to itself, rapacious.

—Lit., of amber and brimstone: in Syria feminas verticillos inde (i. e. ex electro) facere et vocari harpaga, quia folia paleasque et vestium fimbrias rapiat, Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 37; so of sulphur, id. 35, 15, 50, § 176 (the correct reading, see Sillig ad h. l.).
 
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