[Meaning] feeling for. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀφάσσων· ψηλαφῶν. Ἡρόδοτος.
Betacode
*)afa/sswn: yhlafw=n. *(hro/dotos.
Notes (1)
Same or similar entry in other lexica.
1The story, in Herodotus 3.69.3-4, of Phaidima feeling to determine whether the sleeping Smerdis had ears includes two forms of the headword verb a)fa/ssw (aorist imperative a)/fason, feminine present participle a)fa/ssousa): web address 1 below. The Suda's masculine participle a)fa/sswn, however, is quoted from somewhere else: either Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.428, or Lycophron, Alexandra 114; the scholia to both passages gloss it as here.