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σχαστηρία , ἡ,
A.trigger, release-mechanism, Arist.Mu.398b15, Ph. Bel.74.27, Hero Aut.13.9, Bel.78.3, Plb.8.5.10, 8.6.3, Apollod.Poliorc. 188.7; trigger (worked by the foot) of a mechanism (cf. ὕσπληξ) for starting a race, Gal.18(1).438.
II. perh. curtain-releasing mechanism, or curtain-rod, “κατασκευάσαντι ς. χαλκᾶς εἰς τὸν νεὼ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ . . καὶ τῷ ἐνέντι τὰς ς. εἰς τὸν νεώ” Inscr.Délos 372 A 110 (iii B.C.); κίρκων καὶ σχαστηριῶν ib.320 B67 (iii B.C.).
III. pl., attachments for relaxing the pressure of a surgical noose, Heraclas ap. Orib.48.7.3.
IV. place-name in IG22.2776.17,203.
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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