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φορβ-ειά , ἡ, (φέρβω), written φορβεά PCair.Zen.781.16 (iii B. C.), Sor.Fasc.14, al.; φορβέα cod. Hsch.; also φορβαία (q. v.):—
A.halter by which a horse is tied to the manger, “τῆς ἐπιφατνιδίας φ.” X.Eq.5.1; “περιεζῶσθαι τὴν φ.” Arist.Pol.1324b16; “οἱ ἵπποι ἀπὸ φορβειᾶς ἄγονται” Str.15.1.52; ἐκ φ. ἕλκειν [ὄνον] Luc.Asin.51.
II. mouthband of leather put like a halter round the lips of fifers or pipers, to assist them in regulating the sound, Ar.V.582 (anap.), Plu.2.456b: hence φυσᾷ . . φορβειᾶς ἄτερ blows the pipes without this check, i. e. too loud, S.Fr.768.
III. a bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.39 tit., Sor.l.c., Paul.Aeg.6.92.
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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    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 582
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.52
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 5.1
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 768
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