ἀμνίον

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A. bowl in which the blood of victims was caught, Od. 3.444.
2. inner membrane round the foetus, Emp. 71; cf. ἀμνειός.
II. Dim. of ἀμνός, Hermipp. 3 (Ἄμνιος as pr. n. wrongly Et.Gen.).
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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