Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ψα?́λ-ιον

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A.curb-chain, “ῥυταγωγέα . . ἐκ τοῦ ψ. ἠρτημένον” X.Eq. 7.1; “τὸ περὶ γένειον διειρόμενον, ψάλιον” Poll.1.148; = κρίκος τοῦ χαλινοῦ, Sch.E.Ph.792: freq. in pl., because the curb-chain was formed of links, which rattled as the horse moved, “χρυσοχάλινον πάταγον ψαλίων” Ar.Pax155 (anap.); “ψαλίων κρότον καὶ χαλινοῦ κτύπον” Ael. NA6.10; “ψαλίοις ἐδάμασε πώλους” E.HF381 (lyr.): metaph., “οἷον ψ. αὐτῇ [τῇ βασιλείᾳ] ἐνέβαλε τὴν τῶν Ἐφόρων δύναμιν” Pl.Lg.692a.

2. generally, chain, bond, A.Pr.54 (pl.): metaph., “μέγα δ᾽ ἀφῃρέθη ψ. οἰκετῶν” Id.Ch.962 (lyr.).

3. βορινοῦ καὶ νοτινοῦ ψαλίου (or Ψαλίου) the N. and S. ring (or Ring), in description of an estate, POxy. 1632.12 (iv A. D.).

4. a horse's jaw, Hippiatr.28 (cf. ψέλιον, ψάλλιον).

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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