- ὀβελός
- ὀβελ-ός, [dialect] Dor. [full] ὀδελός, ὁ,A spit,
ἀμφ' ὀβελοῖσιν ἔπειραν Il.1.465
, al., cf. Hdt.2.41, 135, E.Cyc.303 ;αἱματίου ὀβελὸς τρικώλιος SIG1025.53
([place name] Cos) ;ὀδελοί Epich.79
; κρῆς . . ἂν τὸν ὀδελὸν ἀμπεπαρμένον Megar. in Ar.Ach.796 ; τὸ θερμὸν τοῦ ὀ., prov. of taking a thing by the wrong end, S.Fr.814.2ὀ. λίθινος
pointed square pillar, obelisk,Hdt.
2.111, 170, Jul.Ep.59.3 = ὀβολός, IG12.6.95, al., Milet.7.59 :—so in [dialect] Dor. form [full] ὀδελός, Leg.Gort.2.14, GDI5011.5 (Crete, iv B. C.), ib. 2561 D 27, al. (Delph., iv B. C.), etc. : Thess. [full] ὀβελλός IG9(2).1229.20.II horizontal line,—(representation of an arrow acc. to Isid.Etym.1.21.3), used as a critical mark to point out that a passage was spurious, Gal.15.110, Luc.Pr.Im.24, Sch.Il. ip.xliii Dind. ; with an asterisk to denote misplaced lines, ibid. ; but with one point below and one above, <*>, ὀ. περιεστιγμένος, in texts of Plato, denoted τὰς εἰκαίους ἀθετήσεις, D.L.3.66.
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