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πλάστιγξ , Ion. πλήστιγξ (v. infr. 111), ιγγος, ἡ,
A.scale of a balance, Ar.Pax 1248 ; “παρίστασθον παρὰ τὼ πλάστιγγε” Id.Ra.1378; τιθέναι εἰς πλάστιγγας, ἐν πλάστιγγι ζυγοῦ κεῖσθαι, Pl.Ti.63b, R.550e : metaph., “ἀνώμαλοι πλάστιγγες ἀστάτου τύχης” Trag.Adesp.179 ; “ὅταν δαίμων ἀνδρὸς εὐτυχοῦς τὸ πρὶν πλάστιγγ᾽ ἐρείσῃ τοῦ βίου παλίρροπον” S.Fr.576.5 (prob. for μάστιγ᾽）“; τὸ τεᾷ π. δοθὲν μακαριστότατον τελέθει” Lyr.Adesp.139; “ὥσπερ ἐπὶ πλάστιγγος ἀντιρρέπων” Ph.2.170; “εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν τιθεὶς π. τὴν μέθην τῇ μανίᾳ” Ath.1.11a.
2. disk poised on the top of the “ῥάβδος κοτταβική, καθ᾽ ὅσον ἂν τὸν κότταβον ἀφεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν π. ποιήσῃ πεσεῖν” Antiph.55.6, cf. Hermipp.47.8 (anap.) ; “π. ἡ χαλκοῦ θυγάτηρ” CritiasFr.1D., cf. Poll.6.110.
3. valve of an oyster-shell, Opp.H.2.179.
II. collar for horses, E.Rh.303.
III. pl., surgical splints, Hippiatr.24,74 ; in form πλήστιγγες , Hp. ap. Gal.19.131.
IV. scourge, A.Ch.290 (s. v. l.), cf. EM674.20, Hsch.
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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