β139Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested and written up. And…
Βάσανος· λίθος ἐστὶν ἡ τὸ χρυσίον παρατριβόμενον δοκιμάζουσα. οὕτως Ἀντιφῶν καὶ Πίνδαρος καὶ Σοφοκλῆς. Ὑπερίδης δὲ τὰ ἐν ταῖς βασάνοις εἰρημένα ὑπὸ τῶν βασανιζομένων καὶ…