holding the balance, he who holds the scale
holding the balance: metaph., Ἄρης τ. ἐν μάχῃ he who holds the scale in battle, A. Ag. 439 (lyr.).
The corpus record
τᾰλαντ-οῦχος
talantouchos
holding the balance
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Where it lives
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ταλαντοῦχος · talantouchos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 437–444
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.