Ὀκρίβας

Notes (1)

1. For this headword, a masculine noun, see already omicron 121 (accusative plural) and again omicron 123. LSJ s.v. o)kri/bas lists its bewildering range of attested meanings, including (as II.2) the one apparently noted in the present entry. See further, next note.
1. 1The gloss is transmitted as sxh=ma h(nio/xou, but the first noun makes no sense. According to Adler, the Dutch scholar David Ruhnken (1723-1798) proffered the emendation to\ bh=ma 'the platform'; this is ingenious in itself and, rather than necessitating a link with LSJ's sense 1 ('platform or tribune in the Odeum at Athens↗, on which the actors appeared at the Proagon') attested in e.g. Plato, Symposium 194B (web address 1), it invokes another authentic sense of the noun bh=ma. The headword is identically glossed in the Synagoge, Photius' Lexicon (omicron185 Theodoridis), and Lexica Segueriana 315.29, but (a) Hesychius omicron587 has the gloss bh=ma h(nio/xou (i.e. without Ruhnken's to/), and (b) Adler notes that a manuscript correction in the Lex. Seg. has o)/xhma, i.e. charioteer's support. ↩