A.tassel: mostly in pl., tassels, fringe, Hom. (only in Il.), of the tassels of the αἰγίς, 2.448; “ζώνῃ ἑκατὸν θυσάνοις ἀραρυίῃ” 14.181, cf. Hes.Sc.225, Hdt.4.189; οἱ τῆς ὀθόνης θ. Ach.Tat.5.24; “πέπλος ἄχρι τῶν θ. πεποικιλμένος” Them.Or.18.222c; of the tufts of the golden fleece, Pi.P.4.231; of the long arms of the cuttle fish, Opp.H.3.178; δικτυωτὸς θ. D.S.18.26. (Possibly connected with θύσσομαι, θύω.)
θύσα^νος [υ^], ὁ,
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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