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ὁλό-σχοινος

oloschoinos · ὁ

club-rush, Scirpus Holoschoenus

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὁλό-σχοινος · holo-schoinos — LSJ

club-rush, Scirpus Holoschoenus, rush

club-rush, Scirpus Holoschoenus, Thphr. HP 4.12.1, 9.12.1, Dsc. 4.52 : used in wicker-work, sts., like flax, soaked for use (βεβρεγμένος), sts. without soaking (ἄβροχος), Ael. NA 12.43 : hence prov., ἀπορράπτειν τὸ Φιλίππου στόμα ὁλοσχοίνῳ ἀβρόχῳ stop Philipʼs mouth with an unsoaked rush (for rushes were soaked to make them tough), i.e. without any trouble, Aeschin. 2.21 ; so ἀποφράξαι ὁλοσχοίνῳ στόμα AP 10.49 (Pall.).

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ὁλοσχοίνων · holoschoinōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1641)

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