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στήριγ-μα , ατος, τό,
A.support, foundation, χερὸς . . στηρίγματα the support of one's hand, E.IA617; στηρίγματ᾽ οἴκου, of children, Trag.Adesp.427; “θνητῶν ς. κραταιόν” Orph.H.18.7; “περιπλοκῆς δεῖται καὶ στηρίγματος” Plu.2.649c, cf. Ph.1.644: in pl., of a tower, J.BJ2.17.8.
2. = στῆριγξ 2, Nicostr.Com.39 (στήριγγα cj. Kock), Plu.Cor. 24.
3. = στεῖρα (A), “στερέωμα” 3, Nonn.D.40.451.
4. = στερέωμα 4, PMag.Lond.121.509.
5. τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ ς. the rest of the multitude, LXX 4 Ki.25.11.
6. pl., surgical supports, = ἀποστηρίγματα, distd. fr. ἑρμάσματα, Gal.18(2).917.
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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    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 617
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