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[94] στησαμένη ἱστόν, ‘having set up the warp,’ for weaving. Here “ἱστός” stands, not for the wooden vertical frame, or loom, which we may suppose was a fixture, but for the perpendicular threads (“στήμονες”) which had to be suspended from the top bar of the frame (“ζυγόν”) as the first process; the next step being to pass the cross threads or woof (“κρόκη, πήνη”), between the “στήμονες” by means of the shuttle. The addition of the epithets “λεπτὸν καὶ περίμετρον” points to the care and the time which would have to be bestowed on the work.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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