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σκυ^τα^λ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, Dim. of σκυτάλη,
A.stick, Hdt.4.60.
2. = σκυτάλιον 1.3, esp. as used by fishermen for drawing the net to land, Ael.NA12.43.
3. = σκυτάλη 1.2, J.AJ3.6.3.
4. = σκυτάλη 1.1, Aen.Tact.22.27, D.S. 8.27, etc.
5. = σκυτάλη 1.5, ἐλέφαντος, κασσιτέρου, Inscr.Délos 443 Bb94,95 (ii B.C.).
6. engine for hurling fire, Suid.
7. finger-bone (cf. σκυτάλη v), J.AJ3.7.6, Poll.2.144, Sor.Fract.22, Gal.2.250; of the neck, ς. τοῦ αὐχένος dub.in Id.19.139.
8. = σκυτάλη 1.4, ticket, Polyaen.1.17.
9. = σκυτάλη 1.7, handspike, Hero Bel.86.11.
II. = σκυτάλη 11, Gp.4.3.11: hence, withy, willow wand, Str.17.1.50.
2. Dim. of “σκυτάλη” 111, “διὰ -ίδων ἐβενίνων λείων ἐξομαλίζονται τὰ σώματα” Id.15.1.54, cf. 55.
III. small crab, of the καρίς kind, Hsch.
2. a kind of caterpillar, EM 720.45.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.3
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.60
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.6.3
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.7.6
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 1.1
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.54
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.50
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.5
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 12.43
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.2
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