Σκυτάλη
cudgel, staff
Translated by David Whitehead2 Mar 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] thick-ended stick, or a whip.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκυτάλη· βακτηρία ἀκροπαχής, ἢ φραγέλλιον.
Betacode
*skuta/lh: bakthri/a a)kropaxh/s, h)\ frage/llion.
Notes
- Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius sigma389 Theodoridis. The supplementary gloss
frage/llion (cf. under upsilon 684, also alpha 302) is the Latin fragellum or flagellum.
cf. sigma 716, sigma 718.
Linked from4 entries
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- σ721Σκύταλονstaff[Meaning] a club. "I, I'll have you know, had the staff brought out." Herodotus [writes]: "and they were beating the Persians with their staffs." That which is a rod thick at one end. Aristophanes [writes]: "I brought…
- υ684Ὕσπληξgin, snare, starting-device, trap, trigger[Meaning a] scourge, starting-gate, ox-goad, or spur, which strikes the oxen. "But he, being ready as if from a starting-device, threw out of it(?)." And elsewhere: "who set you, the beardless Hermes, by…
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