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ἱστιο-ρράφος

istiorraphos · ὁ

sail-patcher

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What it meant

ἱστιο-ρράφος · histio-rraphos — LSJ

sail-patcher

sail-patcher, CIG 9175, Poll. 7.160.

2 tricky, cheating fellow

metaph., tricky, cheating fellow, Ar. Th. 935:—also ἱστιαρράφος, Gramm. in Reitzenstein Ind.Lect. Rost. 1892/3 p.4.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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