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ἔρ-εισμα , ατος, τό,
A.prop, stay, support, “σκῆπτρα, χειρὸς ἐρείσματα” E.HF254 ; ἀμφὶ βάκτροις ἔρεισμα θέμενος,=ἐρεισάμενος, ib.108: in pl., stays of a house, Pl.Lg.793c ; props to keep a boat on shore upright (cf. ἕρμα), Theoc.21.12 ; ἁμμάτων ἐ. strong knots, E.HF1036 (lyr.); of the legs which support the body, Arist.PA689b19, IA708b15 ; of the framework of the body, Id.PA655a25, cf. HA532b3 ; of food, “ἀμβροσία γαστρὸς ἔ. λεπτῆς” Arch.Pap.8.256.
2. metaph., of a person, Θήρων᾽ ἔ. Ἀκράγαντος pillar of Agrigentum, Pi.O.2.6 ; “Ἑλλάδος ἔ. κλειναὶ Ἀθᾶναι” Id.Fr.76, cf. Luc.Dem.Enc.10, Tim.50 ; ἔ. Ἀθηνῶν, of the (future) tomb of Oedipus, S.OC58.
b. of good fortune, “εἰς ἀπροσδόκητον ἔ. καταντῶσιν” Vett.Val.333.30.
II. contusion, Hp.Fract.11.
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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