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.