A.the coarse fibre of flax or hemp, tow, oakum, Hdt. 8.52, X.Cyr.7.5.23, D.47.20, Aen.Tact.33,35, Plb.1.45.12, 5.89.2, D.S.14.51, Plu.Cic.18, Gal.16.622, App.Hann.33, Ill.11, Luc.Asin. 31. (In Papyri and codd. written also στιππύον, στιππεῖον (qq. v.), στυπεῖον, στυπίον, στυππίον (cf. στυππίον: τὸ λίνον, Hsch.); στυπεῖον is confirmed by IG22.1631.336, στυππεῖον by PCair.Zen. 177.6, 514.7 (iii B.C.), and by στυππειοπλόκος, στυππειουργός (qq.v.); cf. [στυπ]πέον IG22.1629.1150.)
στυππεῖον , 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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