The corpus record

σμῑλίον

smilion · τό

scalpel, drug, eye-salve

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

σμῑλίον · smilion — LSJ

scalpel, drug, eye-salve, zmilion

scalpel, Plu. Adul. 2.60a, cf. S.E. M. 9.207, Dsc. Eup. 1.44; of a drug producing the same effect, Paul.Aeg. 3.23.13, 7.17.12; of an eye-salve, written zmilion, Cels. 6.6.18.

2 shoemakerʼs knife, penknife

shoemakerʼs knife, Luc. Gall. 26; penknife, written σμηλίον, POxy. 326 (i A.D.).

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.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about σμῑλίον →