anvil

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).