A.= παλάμη, palm of the hand: hence, as a measure of length, palm, four fingers' breadth, IG12.372.35, Cratin.133, IG22.1665.10, 1666 A67,70, al. (iv B. C.), 11 (2).287 A95 (Delos, iii B. C.), CIG2860.14 (Delos), cf. Phryn.264, PLit.Lond. 183:—also παλαιστή , Hp.Nat.Mul.33, Arist.HA606a14, PCair.Zen.484.11 (iii B. C.), Plb.1.22.4, Hero Aut.3.1, *Geom.4.1, D.S.1.55, etc.; also παλαιστής , οῦ, ὁ, LXXEx.25.23(25), 3 Ki.7.24, Hero *Deff.131, *Geom.4.10, S.E. M.9.300; written παλεστής , POxy.669.27,34 (iii A. D.); cf. παλαιστιαῖος.
πα^λαστ-ή , ἡ,
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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