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ε2914Ἐραῖαeraia, wool-decorated branch… olive branch was principally used for these woolly branches. Compare Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, who glosses the word qallo/s as 'any branch. But principally the branch of the olive' [pa=n to\ qallo/n. kuri/ws de\ o( …Matched in noteshighshort

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Ἐραῖα

eraia, wool-decorated branch

[Meaning] the branch. It also signifies the refuse-like [sc. part] of the olive tree.

Ἐραῖα· ὁ κλάδος. σημαίνει καὶ τῆς ἐλαίας τὸ σκυβαλῶδες.