σκυταλίς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=-ίδος, ἡ, ''Dim. of'' [[σκυτάλη]],<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[stick]], Hdt.4.60.<br><span class="bld">2</span> = [[σκυτάλιον]] 1.3, esp. as used by fishermen for drawing the net to land, Ael.''NA''12.43.<br><span class="bld">3</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] 1.2, J.''AJ''3.6.3.<br><span class="bld">4</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] 1.1, Aen.Tact.22.27, D.S. 8.27, etc.<br><span class="bld">5</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] 1.5, [[ἐλέφαντος]], [[κασσιτέρου]], ''Inscr.Délos'' 443 ''Bb''94,95 (ii B.C.).<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[engine for hurling fire]], Suid.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[finger-bone]] (cf. [[σκυτάλη]] v), J.''AJ''3.7.6, Poll.2.144, Sor.''Fract.''22, Gal.2.250; of the neck, <b class="b3">σ. τοῦ αὐχένος</b> dub.in Id.19.139.<br><span class="bld">8</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] 1.4, [[ticket]], Polyaen.1.17.<br><span class="bld">9</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] 1.7, [[handspike]], Hero ''Bel.''86.11.<br><span class="bld">II</span> = [[σκυτάλη]] ''ΙΙ'', ''Gp.''4.3.11: hence, [[withy]], [[willow wand]], Str.17.1.50.<br><span class="bld">2</span> ''Dim. of'' [[σκυτάλη]] ''III'', διὰ -ίδων ἐβενίνων λείων ἐξομαλίζονται τὰ σώματα Id.15.1.54, cf. 55.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[small crab]], of the [[καρίς]] kind, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">2</span> a kind of [[caterpillar]], EM 720.45.