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ῥόπτρον , τό, (ῥέπω)
A.the wood in a trap which falls when touched and catches the mouse, Archil.90, Poll.7.115: metaph., δίκης ἔπαισεν αὐτὸν ῥ. E.Hipp.1172.
II. musical instrument of the Corybantes, tambourine or kettle-drum, Corn.ND30, Luc.Trag. 36, Orph.Frr.105,152, AP6.74 (Agath.); “ῥ. βυρσοπαγῆ καὶ κοῖλα περιτείναντες ἠχείοις χαλκοῖς” Plu.Crass.23; cf. “ῥόμβος” A.1.3.
III. knocker on a door, E.Ion 1612 (troch.), Ar.Fr.39, Lys.6.1, X.HG6.4.36; cf. “ῥόπαλον” 111.
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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