A.broad leather strap fastening the yoke (ζυγόν) to the neck, and joined to the girth (μασχαλιστήρ), mostly in pl., Il.5.730, 19.393, A. Pers.191, Ar.Eq.768, PFay.348 (ii/iii A.D.): sg., AP4.3 b 1 (Agath.): so metaph., “ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον” A.Ag.218 (lyr.):—later λέπαμνον acc. to Apollon.Lex. s.v. λέπαδνα.
λέπαδν-ον , τό,
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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