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μόσσυν , υ_νος, ὁ,
A.wooden house or tower, “ξύλινοι μ.” Aen.Tact.33.3; “ὁ βασιλεὺς [τῶν Μοσσυνοίκων] ὁ ἐν τῷ μόσσυνι” X.An.5.4.26; σὺν τοῖς μοσσύνοις (as if from μόσσυνος, nisi leg. τοῖν μοσσύνοιν) ibid.; [“οἱ Μοσσύνοικοι] οἰκοῦσιν ἐπὶ ξυλίνοις . . πύργοις . . , μόσσυνας αὐτὰ καλοῦντες” D.H.1.26, cf. Str.12.3.18.
2. palisade, Lyc.433.
3. prob. slip for shipbuilding, Id.1432. [μόσσυ_νας proved by the metre in A.R. 2.1017, Call.Aet.Oxy.2080.70, Lyc. ll.cc.: freq. written μόσυν in codd.]
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.3.18
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.4.26
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.1017
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.26
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