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σποδός

Alt. σποδός,

I. "wood-ashes, embers", and generally, "ashes", Od., Hdt., attic: "the ashes" of the dead, Aesch., Soph., etc.

II. "dust", Hdt.

III. metaph., σπ. κυλίκων, "of a bibulous" old woman, "a sponge, " Anth.