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μάσταξ , α^κος, ἡ (Lyc.687), (μασάομαι)
A.that with which one chews, mouth, jaws, ἐπὶ μάστακα χερσὶ πίεζε he stopped his mouth with his hands, Od.4.287; με . . ἑλὼν ἐπὶ μάστακα χερσίν seizing me by the mouth, 23.76, cf. Alcm.144; “ἀμαυρᾶς μάστακος προσφθέγμασι” Lyc. l. c.; “μάστακι ποππύζων” AP5.284.6 (Agath.), cf. 293.16 (Id.).
2. v. μύσταξ.
II. = μάσημα, mouthful, morsel, “ὡς δ᾽ ὄρνις ἀπτῆσι νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσι μάστακ᾽, ἐπεί κε λάβῃσι” Il.9.324, cf. Eust.753.62; “μάστακα δοῖσα τέκνοισιν” Theoc.14.39; of the olive, Call.Iamb.1.271; others expl. in Il. l. c. as dat. μάστακι in its beak, Apollon.Lex. s.v. μάσταξ, Plu.2.494d.
III. locust, S.Fr.716, Nic.Th.802, Clitarch. Gloss. ap. EM216.9. (Cf. μέστακα.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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