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κλῖμαξ , α^κος, ἡ, (κλίνω)
A.ladder (because of its leaning aslant), SIG 1169.92 (Epid.); scaling-ladder, Th.3.23, X.HG7.2.7, etc.; “κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις” A.Th.466,cf.E.Ph.489; “κλιμάκων ὀρθοστάτας προσβαλών” Id.Supp.497; προσθεῖναι Th.l.c.; boarding-ladder, gangway, E.IT 1351, 1382, Theoc.22.30; κ. σκύτιναι, στύππιναι, Ph.Bel.102.13, 16.
2. staircase, Od.1.330, 10.558,al., IG22.463.46; κ. ξύλιναι ib. 1668.84; κ. ἑλικτή winding stair, Callix.1.
II. frame with crossbars, on which persons to be tortured were tied, Ar.Ra.618, Com.Adesp.422.
2. ladder used in reducing dislocations, Hp.Art.42; κ. ἰσχυροὺς ἔχουσα κλιμακτῆρας ib.78.
III. wrestler's trick, “ἀμφίπλεκτοι κ.” S.Tr.521 (lyr.), cf. Hsch. s.v. ἐκ κλίμακος.
IV. in Rhet., climax, Demetr.Eloc.270, Quint.9.3.54, Longin.23.1 (pl.).
V. part of a chariot, narrowing like steps, Poll.1.253.
VI. in pl., handrails on either side of a bridge, Arr.An.5.7.5.
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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