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σκαλμός , ὁ,
A.pin or thole to which the Greek oar was fastened by the τροπωτήρ, h.Hom.7.42, A.Pers.376, E.Hel.1598, IT1347; “ὑπομόχλιον ὁ ς. γίνεται” Arist.Mech.850b11; κατὰ σκαλμὸν ἐρέσσειν (opp. paddle) Arr.Ind.27.5:—of the πριαπίσκος in the βάθρον Ἱπποκράτους, Ruf. ap. Orib.49.26.6.
II. ς. θρανίτης a bank or bench of rowers, Plb.16.3.4.
III. = σκαλισμός 1, POxy.1631.12 (iii A.D.).
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 (7):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 376
    • Euripides, Helen, 1598
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1347
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 7 to Dionysus, 42
    • Polybius, Histories, 1
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.3.4
    • Arrian, Indica, 27.5
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