στῆριγξ
ὦ θάνατε παιάν, μή μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς μολεῖν· μόνος γὰρ εἶ σὺ τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰατρός, ἄλγος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἅπτεται νεκροῦ. → O death, the healer, reject me not, but come! For thou alone art the mediciner of ills incurable, and no pain layeth hold on the dead.
English (LSJ)
ιγγος, ἡ,
A support, prop, stay, σ. τοῦ σώματος, of the κνήμη or large bone of the leg, X.Eq.1.5; αἱ σ. [τῶν πύργων] D.S. 18.70. b = παρακερκίς 1, Poll.2.191 (pl.). 2 fork with which the shaft or pole of a two-wheeled chariot was propped, until the beasts were yoked to it, Lys.Fr.330 S., Plu.2.280f: acc. στήριγγᾰν Maiuri Nuova Silloge 48 (Rhodes).
German (Pape)
[Seite 942] ιγγος, ἡ, die Stütze; τῶν κνημῶν τὰ ὀστᾶ· ταῦτα γάρ ἐστι στήριγγες τοῦ σώματος, Xen. Equit. 1, 5; Poll. 1, 220. Bes. die Gabel, mit der man die Deichsel stützte, ehe das Zugvieh angespannt wurde, Plut. qu. Rom. 70.
