Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἱστίον

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II. from Hom. downwds., sail, mostly in pl. ἱστία, ἕλκον δ᾽ ἱστία λευκὰ . . βοεῦσιν they hauled them up with ox-hide ropes, Od.2.426; τέταθ᾽ ἱστία the sails were spread, 11.11, cf. Pi. N.5.51; ἱστία στέλλεσθαι, μηρύεσθαι, καθελεῖν, to lower or furl sail (v. sub vocc.): “λύειν” Od.15.496; “ἱστίοισι χρᾶσθαι” Hdt.4.110; “ἄκροισι χρώμενος τοῖς ἱστίοις” Ar.Ra.1000: prov., πλήρεσιν ἱ. under full sail, with all one's might, Philostr.VS1.25.5, cf. Suid.: rarely in sg., “ἐν δ᾽ ἄνεμος πρῆσεν μέσον ἱστίον” Il.1.481; “ἐξίει ἱ. ἀνεμόεν” Pi.P.1.92; “ἱστίῳ καταπετάσαι τινά” Pl.Prm.131b, cf. PMagd.11.7 (iii B.C.).

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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