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[Meaning] cleaved-off promontories.
"When he found any precipices affording passage, Diocletian closed them off too."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular] a)porrw/c, [meaning] a fragment of a mountain.
And a branch of a family.
"This man was an off-shoot of the Furies."[2]
"And the rock was entirely precipitous below, and there was no sort of way-up."[3]
"There was a certain Timon, a vagabond, encompassed by unpassable thorns, an off-shoot of the Furies."[4] He was a so-called misanthrope, who Neanthes says fell from a pear-tree and became lame; he would admit no physician, but got gangrene and died, and after his death his tomb was inaccessible, beaten by the sea all around and in the road leading out from Piraeus to Sounion.[5] "Unpassable" meaning [sc. he was] unapproachable and unstable and as if hedged round with thorns. Also harsh or hidden by stakes and pales. Meaning a sullen man and a misanthrope.

*)aporrw=gas: e)coxa\s a)pesxisme/nas. e)peidh/ tinas a)porrw=gas eu(=re pa/rodon dido/ntas, kai\ au)ta\s a)pe/kleisen o( *dioklhtiano/s. kai\ *)aporrw/c, a)po/spasma o)/rous. kai\ ge/nous a)pogonh/. ou(=tos de\ h)=n a)/ra *)erinnu/wn a)porrw/c. pa=sa d' a)porrw\c pe/trh e)/hn u(pe/nerqe, kai\ a)/mbasis ou) nu/ tis h)=en. *ti/mwn h)=n tis a)i/+drutos a)ba/toisin eu)skw/loisi perieirgme/nos, *)erinnu/wn a)porrw/c. o( lego/menos misa/nqrwpos, o(/n fhsi *nea/nqhs a)po\ a)xra/dos peso/nta xwlo\n gene/sqai: mh\ prosie/menon de\ i)atrou\s, a)poqanei=n sape/nta, kai\ meta\ th\n teleuth\n au)tou= to\n ta/fon a)/baton gene/sqai, u(po\ qala/sshs perirrage/nta kai\ e)n o(dw=| th=| e)k *peiraiw=s ei)s *sou/nion fugou/sh|. a)ba/tois de\ a)nti\ tou= a)/batos kai\ a)/statos kai\ oi(=on a)ka/nqais tetrixwme/nos. kai\ sklhro\s h)\ sko/loyi kai\ patta/lois h)fanisme/nos. a)nti\ tou= skuqrwpo\s kai\ misa/nqrwpos.

The headword, accusative plural, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given; same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler suggestes Eunapius); for its substance, however, cf. below.
[3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 309; see already alpha 1517.
[4] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 808-811 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the scholia there; cf. tau 632.
[5] Neanthes FGrH 84 F35; cf. sigma 797. Plutarch [Antonius 70.3] records that Timon was buried 'at Halai near the sea'. There were two Attic demes of this name, H. Aixonides on the SW coast and H. Araphenides on the NE. If Timon is a real person (for doubts see e.g. Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar 708-9), he may have a second-century descendent -- from Halai Aixonides -- in Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ii s.v. no.21 (T. Menemachou).

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