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ἔχμα , ατος, τό, (ἔχω)
A.that which holds; and so,
I. hindrance, impediment, Il.21.259 (pl.).
2. c. gen., bulwark, defence against, “ἐπηλυσίης” h.Merc.37; “βολάων” A.R.4.201.
II. holdfast, stay, ἔχματα πέτρης the grip of the rock (viz. the river-bed), Il.13.139; ἔχματα πύργων buttresses of the fortifications, 12.260; ἔχματα νηῶν props or cradles for the ships, 14.410; ἔχματα γαίης, of the earth which holds fast the roots of a tree, A.R.1.1200; ἔχματα γούνων, of muscles, Nic.Th.724:—also ἐχμός , ὁ, Eust.1411.24.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.260
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.139
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.410
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.259
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 37
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.1200
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.201
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