ψέλιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=later sometimes ψέλλιον (v. l. in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.2</span>, never in Hdt.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POsl.</span>46.8</span> (iii A. D.), <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>7.428 (Dura, iii A. D.), in Inscrr. ψίλιον, ψίλλιον (qq. v.), τό:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[armlet]] or [[anklet]], ψέλιον περὶ ἑκατέρῃ τῶν κνημέων <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.168</span>; mostly in pl. [[ψέλια]], a favourite ornament of the Persians, <span class="bibl">Id.3.20</span>, <span class="bibl">22</span>, <span class="bibl">9.80</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.2.27</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.2</span>; worn by women in Egypt, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1101.8</span> (i B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>259.11</span> (i A. D.), etc., and in Greece, Plu.2.142c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> an iron implement, perh. agricultural, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>782</span> ([[a]]).<span class="bibl">42</span> (iii B. C.); ψελίου καὶ δρεπάνου <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.113</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> οἱ Δωριεῖς ψέλλιον καλοῦσι τὸ ἄκρον· ὅθεν καὶ ἡμεῖς τὴν ἐπ' ἄκρων χειλέων λεγομένην προσῳδίαν ψιλὴν ἐκαλέσαμεν, ὥς φησι Τρύφων <span class="bibl">Ammon.<span class="title">Diff.</span>p.143V.</span> ([[ψέλιον]] is distinguished from [[ψάλιον]] by <span class="bibl">Ammon.<span class="title">Diff.</span>p.142</span> V., Ptol.Asc.<span class="bibl">p.396H.</span>, but is the later form of [[ψάλιον]] acc. to Moer.<span class="bibl">p.420P.</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>792</span> (ἔστι δὲ ψέλιον ὁ κρίκος τοῦ χαλινοῦ, ἢ ἁπλῶς ὁ κρίκος) and this may be the meaning in <span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span> l. c.)</span>