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[Meaning a] spiral-shaped place; it is also said of nonsense.[1]
[sc. The term arises] from its not having [labein] a door [thura].
Or from using many circles of words.[2]
It also means the votive-offering of the Grotto Nymphs. "You tell me, labyrinth in the sea, who found you as quarry from the grey sea and dedicated you?"[3]

Laburinthos: kochlioeidês topos: legetai de epi tôn phluarôn. para to mê labein thuran. ê para to pollous logôn kuklous kechrêsthai. sêmainei de kai to tôn Antriadôn Numphôn anathêma. ein hali laburinthe, tu moi lege, tis s' anethêken agremion polias ex halos heuramenos;

[1] Same or similar material in other lexica; see the references at Photius lambda10 Theodoridis.
[2] Also, already, in Hesychius lambda33.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.224.1-2 (Theodoridas); on a shell found at the seashore, dedicated to Nymphs; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (192) and vol. II (541); cf. further extracts from this epigram at alpha 346, alpha 2766, and pi 952. Gow and Page note (ibid.) that the "labyrinth in the sea" addressed in the quotation is most likely metaphorical of some oceanic mollusk with a convoluted shell.

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)

Catharine Roth (Altered wording, added keywords.) on 17 July 2000@22:52:44.
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 25 May 2001@06:34:38.
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