A.piece of cloth, Hom. (only in Od.), εἴλυμα σπείρων a wrapping cloth, 6.179; σπεῖρα κακά sorry wraps, of a beggar, 4.245; αἴ κεν ἄτερ σπείρου κεῖται without a cerecloth or shroud, 2.102, cf. 19.147, 24.137; σπεῖρον καὶ ἐπίκριον sail and sailyard, 5.318; πείσματα καὶ σπεῖρα [where the ult. is long in arsi] 6.269 (v.l. σπείρας):—later, garment, “νυμφιδίου σπείροιο καλύπτρη” Euph. 107; cf. σπειρίον.
σπεῖρον , 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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