splinter of pine wood, little torch, firewood
splinter of pine wood, Dsc. 1.69,2.73; little torch, Iamb. Protr. 21.ισʹ, Procop. Goth. 2.20, Poll. 10.111; used of firewood, Ar. Eq. 921.
2 dilator
dilator (cf. δαΐς 4), Hp. Mul. 1.13, 2.133.
The corpus record
δᾳδ-ίον
dadion · τό
splinter of pine wood
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Where it lives
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
Where it came from
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