λαγωβόλον
ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death
English (LSJ)
(parox.), τό,
A staff or stick for flinging at hares, also used as a shepherd's staff or crook, Theoc.4.49, 7.128, Ep.2, AP6.188 (Leon.), D.H.14.2, etc.:—also λαγωοβόλον, AP6.296 (Leon.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 4] τό, p. auch λαγωοβόλον, Leon. Tar. 12 (VI, 296), Hafenwerfer, ein Knittel mit einem Haken, der zum Werfen u. Tödten der Hafen gebraucht wurde, aber auch als Hirten- u. Wanderstab diente, Theocr. 4, 49; neben κορύνη, 7, 128; Ep. ad. 263 (Plan. 258).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λᾰγωβόλον: τό, ξύλον ἐξακοντιζόμενον κατὰ φευγόντων λαγωῶν καὶ χρησιμεῦον ὡσαύτως ὡς ῥάβδος ποιμενική, Λατ. pedum, Θεόκρ. 4. 49., 7. 128, Ἀνθ. Π. 6. 177, 188.· ὡσαύτως λαγωοβόλον, Ἀνθ. Π. 6. 296· πρβλ. Müller Archäol. d. Kunst § 387. 2.
