A.fence, guard, ἔ. χροός, of defensive armour, Il.4.137 ; of a cloak, Hes.Op.536 ; “θώρακας, ἐρύματα σωμάτων” X.Cyr.4.3.9 ; “ἔ. νιφετοῦ” a defence against.., Call.Fr.142 ; τὸ ἔ. τοῦ τείχεος the defence given by it, Hdt.7.223,225 ; “περιβαλέσθαι ἕρκος, ἔ. τῶν νεῶν” Id.9.96, cf. Th.8.40 ; ἔ. Τρώων the wall of Troy, S.Aj.467 ; “ἔ. λίθοις ὤρθωσαν” a breast-work, Th.6.66 ; ἔ. τειχίζεσθαι, τειχίζειν, Id.1.11, X.HG2.3.46 ; also of a river or trench used as a military defence, Id.An.2.4.22.
ἔρυ^μα , ατος, τό, (ἐρύω Β)
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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