ἀστράβη
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A mule's saddle, an easy padded saddle, used by effeminate persons (Sch.D. l.c. infr.), ἐπ' ἀστράβης ἂν ὠχούμην Lys.24.11; ἐπ' ἀστράβης ὀχούμενος ἀργυρᾶς (v.l. ἐξ Ἀργούρας) D.21.133; τῶν ὑποζυγίων τὰ τριχώματα γίνεται λευκὰ ἐκ προστρίψεων τῆς ἀστράβης Arist.Col.interpol.post 798a19; εὐτελῶς ἐπ' ἀστράβης Macho ap.Ath.13.582c; μαλακίζομαι ἐπ' ἀστράβης ὀχηθείς Luc.Lex.2: prov., σοφόν γ' ὁ βοῦς ἔφασκεν ἀστράβην ἰδών, Com.Adesp.563.—Expld. as εἶδος ἁμάξης in Hdn.Gr.1.308; as the pommel of a saddle, EM159.50, Hsch.; of the mule itself, Id., Harp., Eust.1625.40. 2 Δημοσθένους ἀ., a kind of surgical appliance, Heliod. ap. Orib.49.4.34.
