σκυτάλη
σκυτάλη [ ᾰ], ἡ,
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ShortDef
a staff, cudgel, club
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Headword:
σκυτάλη
Headword (normalized):
σκυτάλη
Headword (normalized/stripped):
σκυταλη
Intro Text:
σκυτάλη [ ᾰ], ἡ,
IDX:
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URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n95347
Key:
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Senses and Citations (From Data)
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Children (1)
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staff, cudgel, club, D.S. 3.8; σ. ἀγριέλαιος, of Heracles’ club, AP 9.237 ( Eryc.); cf. σκύταλον:—Special usages:
Children (5)
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Children (7)
1
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staff or baton, used as a cypher for writing dispatches, a strip of leather being rolled slantwise round it, on which the dispatches were written lengthwise, so that when unrolled they were unintelligible: commanders abroad had a staff of like thickness, round which they rolled these strips, and so were able to read the dispatches:—hence σκυτάλη came to mean a Spartan dispatch, Th. 1.131, X. HG 3.3.8, Ar. Lys. 991, Plu. Lys. 19, Gell. 17.9.15; and, generally, dispatch, message, as Pi. calls the bearer of his ode σκυτάλα Μοισᾶν O. 6.91, where the Sch. quotes ἀχνυμένη σκυτάλη (dub. sens.) from Archil. ( Fr. 89.2); ἡ σκυτάλης περιτροπή, of labour in vain (cf. ὕπερος), Pl. Tht. 209d.
Citations (1)
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O. 6.91
σκυτάλα Μοισᾶν
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2
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pole or staff, like those of a sedan-chair, LXX Ex. 30.4.
3
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strickle for levelling grain piled up in a measure, σ. δικαία PTeb. 823.15, PAmh. 2.43.10 (both ii B.C.), cf. Poll. 4.170.
Citations (1)
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PTeb. 823.15
σ. δικαία
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4
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n95347-0-0-0-3
wooden tally or ticket on a money-bag, etc., Diosc.Hist. 4, D.S. 13.106.
5
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strip or rod of metal or ivory, κασσιτέρου Inscr.Délos 442 B 170 (ii B.C.); ἐλέφαντος ibid.; cf. Hld. 9.15.
Citations (1)
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-126570
κασσιτέρου
6
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scourge whip, Moer. p.346P.
7
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handle or lever in a machine, Orib. 49.3.3; handspike for turning a wheel, Ph. Bel. 68.6, 85.2, Hero Bel. 86.12 (pl.).
II
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n95347-0-0-1
sucker from a stem, Gp. 9.11.4, al.
III
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n95347-0-0-2
cylinder or roller wherewith weights are moved, Arist. Mech. 852a16, cf. CPHerm. 95.16 (iii A.D.).
IV
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a serpent, of uniform roundness and thickness, Nic. Th. 384, Sor. ap. Philum. Ven. 27.3 (for Plu. Crass. 32 v. Σκύλλα).
Children (1)
2
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a fish of like shape, Opp. H. 1.184.
V
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finger-bone, phalanx, Paul.Aeg. 6.43, Tz. H. 9.126.
Citations (From Models)
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