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εἰρεσία , Ion. -ίη, ἡ, (ἐρέσσω)
A.rowing, oarage, “πρῶτα μὲν εἰρεσίη, μετέπειτα δὲ κάλλιμος οὖρος” Od.11.640; “εἰρεσίῃ χρᾶσθαι” Hdt.1.203, 4.110; “εἰρεσίας ζυγόν” S.Aj.249 (lyr.); “εἰ. τῶν τριήρων” Arist.Mete.369b10: metaph., “εἰ. πτερῶν” Luc.Tim.40; παρὰ δ᾽ εἰρεσίᾳ μαστῶν ἕπεται Ἀστυάναξ close to her throbbing breast, E.Tr.570 (anap.); “εἰρεσίῃ γλώσσης” Dionys.Eleg.4.3.
2. oar, Ph.1.352,385.
II. in collective sense, rowers, oarsmen, E.Hel.1453(lyr.), AP7.287 (Antip.(?)); ξυνέχειν τὴν εἰ. keep the oars together or make the rowers keep time, Th.7.14.
2. boat-song, to which the rowers kept time, “αὐλεῖν εἰρεσίαν” Plu.Alc.32, cf. Luc.VH1.40.
III. pl., rowers' benches, Plb.1.21.2. (The Ep. form, due to metrical lengthening, is retained in Prose.)
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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