A.“στελεά” 1, of an axe, EM339.57, 725.49; nom. pl. “στελεοί” IG22.1673.29,30;= “σκυταλίδες” 1.3, J.AJ3.6.6; acc. pl. written “στελειούς” IG22.1673.55: gender uncertain in acc. sg. στελεόν (perh.= rolling-pin) Anaxipp.6.3, cf. Antiph.121 (Rh.Mus.81.381), and in gen. sg. “στελεοῦ” Ph.Bel.67.13, AP6.297 (Phan.): dat. sg. “στελεῷ” Alciphr.3.55 codd. (στελέχῳ cj. Mein.); στελεοῖς ἐχρῶντο (to punish adulterers) μὴ παρουσῶν τούτων (sc. τῶν ῥαφανίδων) App.Prov. 5.43 (cf. “στελεά” 11): also nom. στειλειός , Aesop. 122, gen. στειλειοῦ (gender uncertain) Nic.Th.387 (v.l. στειλειῆς): also στειλεός , “οἱ ς. τῶν σκαφίων” Hp.Fract.8, cf. Mul.1.90 (with vv. ll. in both places, as also in the citations by Paul.Aeg.6.99, 115, 118):—hence Dim. στειλειάριον , Eust.1531.38.
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