an instrument, for weighing, for lifting
an instrument of Archimedes for weighing, Simp. in Ph. 1110.4; = Lat. campana, Gloss.; or for lifting, Tz. H. 2.130.
The corpus record
χᾰρ-ιστίων
charistion · ὁ
an instrument
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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