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σπάδιξ [α_], ι_κος, ἡ, （σπάω)
A.bough or branch torn off, esp. palmbranch or frond,= βάϊς (cf. “σπάθη” 7), “ς. φοίνικος” Porph.Abst.4.7: abs., Plu.2.724a: pl. in Lat. spadica (Amm.Marc.24.3.12); applied to other plants, e.g. “ῥυτῆς” Nic.Al.528; ποΐσω ἀργυρέ[α]ν ς. Supp.Epigr. 4.61 (Centuripae, i (?) A.D., but perh. in signf.11).
2. as Adj., palm-coloured, i.e. bay, only Lat. spadix, Verg.G.3.82, Gell.2.26.9.
II. a stringed instrument like the lyre, with high notes, Nicom. Harm.4, Poll.4.59; condemned by Quintilian as effeminate, Inst.1.10.31.
III. rind stripped from the root of the πρῖνος, Λέξεις Ἡροδότου in Stein Herodotus ii p.469 (Berol. 1871), cf. Hsch. s.v. σπᾶ.
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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