- στομόω
- στομόω, ([etym.] στόμα)A muzzle or gag, Hdt.4.69:—[voice] Pass., πώλους . . φιμοῖσιν . . ἐστομωμένας having their mouths muzzled, A.Fr.326.II (
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) furnish with a mouth or opening,λιμένα Poll.2.100
.2 Medic.,= ἀναστομόω, open, either by the knife, or by plasters, Hp. Art.40, cf. Heliod. ap. Orib.44.8.21; dilate, of the womb, Hp.Mul.1.25 ([voice] Pass.).3 metaph., provide with a mouth, i.e. with eloquence, prob. in E.Cret.44 ([voice] Pass.).III (στόμα 111.1
) of iron, harden, make into steel, in [voice] Pass., Ph.Bel.102.20, Plu.2.943e; [ἔγχος] ἐστομωμένον Epigr.Gr.790.5
([place name] Achaea); Chrysippus compared the creation of the soul to the hardening of πνεῦμα in the cold air, Stoic.2.134, 222.2 metaph., steel, harden, train for anything, Ar.Nu.1108,1110;σ. στομάχους Muson.Fr.18
Ap.97H. ([voice] Pass.):—[voice] Pass., στομοῦσθαι καὶ κρατύνεσθαι [τὰ βρέφη] Plu.Lyc.16.IV ἀκοντισταῖς τὴν οὐραγίαν καὶ τὰς πλευρὰς ς. edge, fringe, fence with javelin-men, Id.Ant.42; so perh., in [voice] Pass., [δράκαινα] ἐχίδναις ἐστομωμένη E.IT287
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Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό). 2014.