φάκελος

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], ὁ,

   A bundle, faggot, φρυγάνων, ῥάβδων, Hdt.4.62,67; ξύλων E.Cyc.242; δονάκων Opp.H.4.419 (σφακέλους codd.); ὕλης Th.2.77; οἱ φ. τῶν ῥάβδων, = Lat. fasces, D.C.53.1; also written φάκελλος Arist.Metaph.1016a1 (but φάκελος codd. EJ and Alex.Aphr. and so all codd. in 1042b17), Aen.Tact.33.1, D.H.7.11, J.AJ5.7.4 (v.l. φακέλους), Polyaen.7.6.9, but the form φάκελος is corroborated by Phld.Rh.1.74 S., Edict.Diocl.32.26, and required by the metre in E. and Opp. ll.cc.; distd. from σφάκελος by Ptol.Asc.p.406 H.; cf. κομποφακελορρήμων.    II = φακιόλιον, Phot., Suid.