anvil
From LSJ
Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
V. ἄκμων, ὁ (Sophocles, Fragment).
as with a blow upon an anvil, swinging his club above his head, he brought it down upon the child's flaxen head: V. μυδρόκτυπον μίμημ' ὑπὲρ κάρα βαλών ξύλον καθῆκε παιδὸς ἐς ξανθὸν κάρα (Sophocles, Fragment).
