ψέλιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=later sometimes [[ψέλλιον]] (v. l. in X.Cyr.1.3.2, never in Hdt.), POsl.46.8 (iii A. D.), Supp.Epigr.7.428 (Dura, iii A. D.), in Inscrr. ψίλιον, ψίλλιον (qq. v.), τό:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[armlet]] or [[anklet]], ψέλιον περὶ ἑκατέρῃ τῶν κνημέων Hdt.4.168; mostly in plural [[ψέλια]], a favourite ornament of the Persians, Id.3.20, 22, 9.80, X.An.1.2.27, Cyr.1.3.2; worn by women in Egypt, BGU1101.8 (i B. C.), POxy.259.11 (i A. D.), etc., and in Greece, Plu.2.142c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> an [[iron]] ''implement'', perhaps agricultural, PCair.Zen.782 (a).42 (iii B. C.); ψελίου καὶ δρεπάνου PPetr.2p.113 (iii B. C.).<br><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 Ammon.Diff.p.143V. ([[ψέλιον]] is distinguished from [[ψάλιον]] by Ammon.Diff.p.142 V., Ptol.Asc.p.396H., but is the later form of [[ψάλιον]] acc. to Moer.p.420P., Sch.E.Ph.792 (ἔστι δὲ ψέλιον ὁ κρίκος τοῦ χαλινοῦ, ἢ ἁπλῶς ὁ [[κρίκος]]) and this may be the meaning in PCair.Zen. l. c.)