A.having a navel or boss, ἀσπίδοσ-οέσσης of the shield with a central boss, Il.6.118, Tyrt.12.25, cf.Ar.Pax1274 ; ζυγὸν-όεν yoke with a knob on the top, Il.24.269, cf. “ὀμφαλός” 11.2 ; “οἰμωγὰσ-οέσσας” Ar.Pax1278 (by comic transference from ἀσπίδας ὀ. ib. 1274) ; συκέης πόσιν -όεσσαν, prob. referring to a peculiar kind of fig (called ὀμφάλειος by Phot.), Nic.Al.348 ; ἄρκτον-όεσσαν, because pointing to the pole (ὀμφαλός) of the heavens, ib.7.
ὀμφα^λό-εις , εσσα, εν,
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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