σχοῖνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, also ἡ, (Ar.Fr.34, Pl.541 (anap.), Theoc.7.133, Call.Fr. 481, Dsc.4.52, etc.):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[rush]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.190, etc.; πλεκτὴ σχοῖνος Ar.Fr.l.c.; στιβὰς σχοίνων Id.Pl.l.c. (anap.); σχοῖνοι ἐπὶ τὰς ὀροφάς IG22.1672.101; esp. [[camel]]-[[hay]], [[Cymbopogon schoenanthus]], Thphr.HP9.7.1, CP6.18.1, Od.25,33, D.S.2.49, Dsc.1.17; σχοῖνος [[εὔοσμος]] Thphr.CP6.18.1; σχοῖνος εὐώδης Hp.Mul.1.78, cf. 2.192, Nat.Mul.33, Aret.CA2.8.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[σχοῖνος ὀξύς]], [[σχοῖνος ἑλεία]], [[σχοῖνος λεία]] = [[ὀξύσχοινος]], Thphr.HP4.12.1, Dsc.4.52, Gal.12.136; σχοῖνος [[κάρπιμος]] = [[μελαγκρανίς]], Thphr.HP4.12.1; [[σχοῖνος Εὐριπική]] = [[ὁλόσχοινος]], Dsc.4.52, cf. Plin.HN21.119 (its [[flower]] was called [[σχοίνου ἄνθος]], Arist.Fr.110).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[reed]], used as an [[arrow]] or [[javelin]], Batr.253 (as v.l.); as a '[[thorn]] in the side', Ar.Ach.230; as a spit, Pl.Com.201; as a pen, LXXJe.8.8; as a means of exploring a narrow and crooked [[passage]] in the [[skull]], καθιέντας ἢ σχοῖνος ἢ ὑείαν [[τρίχα]] Gal.UP 9.10.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[rush]]-[[bed]], Od.5.463, Pi.O.6.54, Arist.Mete.359b1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> anything [[twist]]ed or [[plait]]ed of [[rush]]es, esp. [[rope]], [[cord]], Orac. ap. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.66,5.16, Pl.Ti.78b, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[fence]] round a [[garden]], APl.4.255.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[strap]] of a bed, AP5.293.12 (Agath., pl.).<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[schene]], a [[land]] [[measure]] of length equivalent to 20,000 [[Egyptian]] [[cubit]]s (about 10.5 kilometres) used especially in [[Egypt]], δύναται ὁ σχοῖνος, μέτρον ἐὼν Αἰγύπτιον, ἑξήκοντα στάδια [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.6; but varying in length acc. to Artemid. ap. Str.17.1.24, cf. ib.41, Plin.HN6.124; = 40 [[στάδιον|στάδια]] acc. to Eratosth. ap. Plin. HN12.53; 30 or 48 acc. to Hero ''*Geom''.23.20,43; τῷ μεγάλῳ (corrected to [[δικαίῳ]]) σχοίνῳ PCair.Zen.132.7 (iii B.C.), cf. 172.4, al.; also [[τέχνῃ]] κρίνετε, μὴ σχοίνῳ Περσίδι τὴν σοφίην Call.Aet.Oxy.2079.18 (cf. Fr.481).