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στάχυς [στα^χυ_ς E.HF5, but στα^χυ^ν Call.Dian.130, A.R.1.688], υος, ὁ: pl.
A.“στάχυες” IG12.280.78,22.1424a333, etc.; Ep. dat. “σταχύεσσιν” Il.23.598; acc. “στάχυ_ς” Ar.Eq.393, OGI56.68 (Canopus, iii B.C.), but “στάχυας” LXX Ge.41.7, etc:—ear of corn, in pl., Il.l.c., Hes.Op.473, Ev.Matt.12.1, etc.; τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας τῶν ς. Arist.Pol.1284a30: in sg., A.Supp.761, Fr.304.7, S.Fr.395, and freq in E., Hec.593, al.: metaph., “ς. ἄτης” A.Pers.821; ἐκ καλάμης . . στάχυες, of Bacchylides' poems, AP4.1.34 (Mel.):—of the Theban Σπαρτοί, E.Ph.939, HF5, Ba.264; of the crop reaped by Cleon in capturing the Spartans at Sphacteria, Ar.Eq.393; βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον ς. E.Fr.757.6.
2. generally, scion, progeny, “ς. ἄρσην” Id.Fr.360.22, cf. Lyc.214; δισσὸν Βορέον ς. Orph.A.218; “τέκνων” Man.6.304; “Ἰνδῶν” Nonn.D.18.267; Ἑλλάδος ἀμώων ἄγαμον ς. AP9.362.25.
3. name of the chief star in the constellation Virgo, Spica Virginis, Arat.97, Ptol.Alm.7.5: in pl., Man. 2.134.
II. lower part of the abdomen, Heliod. ap. Orib.50.26 tit., Poll.2.168, cf. Eust.194.4, 410.17.
III. base horehound, Stachys germanica, Dsc.3.106, Plin.HN24.136.
IV. νάρδου στάχυς,= ναρδόσταχυς, Gp.7.13.1; ὁ τῆς νάρδου ς. Gal.6.267.
V. surgical bandage, 'spica' bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.46 tit., Gal.18(1).814.
VI. παρὰ τοῖς ναυπηγοῖς τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς φάλαγγος μεριζόμενον, Hsch.
VII. = Heb. shibboleth, LXX Jd.12.6.
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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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 761
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 393
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 264
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 593
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    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 939
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 473
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 41.7
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    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 395
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.688
    • New Testament, Matthew, 12.1
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