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Forms: μοχλοὶ (data provider: donatus-sup), μοχλοί (data provider: perseus), μοχλοὺσ (data provider: donatus-sup), μοχλούσ (data provider: perseus), μοχλοῖσ (data provider: perseus), μοχλοῖσι (data provider: perseus), μοχλοῖσιν (data provider: perseus), μοχλοῦ (data provider: perseus), μοχλὸν (data provider: donatus-sup), μοχλὸσ (data provider: donatus-sup), μοχλόν (data provider: perseus), μοχλόσ (data provider: perseus), μοχλῶν (data provider: perseus), μοχλῷ (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Autenrieth: A Homeric lexicon
- Bonitz: Index Aristotelicus
- Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon
- μοχλόσ (Ion. μοκλόσ Anacr.88), ὁ,
bar, lever, crowbar
, used for moving ships, μοχλοῖσιν δ' ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν Od.5.261; or heavy weights, μοχλοῖς καὶ μηχαναῖσιν ἀνελκύσαι Ar.Pax307; for forcing doors and gates, E.Or.1474 (lyr.), cf. Ba.348, 1104, etc.; ὑποβαλόντες τοὺς μ. ὑπὸ τὰς πύλασ Ar.Lys.428, cf. Arist.Mech.847b11, al. II. any bar
or stake
, as in Od.9.332 the stake which Odysseus runs into the Cyclops' eye, cf. E.Cyc.633. III. wooden or iron bar
or bolt
placed across gates on the inside and secured by the βάλανος, τοῦ μοχλοῦ διακοπέντοσ Th.4.111, cf. 2.4, IG12.313.126; μοχλοὺς ἐπιβάλλειν Ar.Th.415; τὸν μ. ἐμβάλλειν X.An.7.1.12, cf. Ar.Lys.246; μοχλοῖς καὶ κλῄθροισι τὰ προπύλαια πακτοῦν ib.264; τὴν πόλιν ..ἀπεκλῄσατε τοῖσι μ. ib.487; πύλας μοχλοῖς χαλᾶτε by [drawing back] the bars
, A.Ch.879; κλῇθρα λύσαντες μοχλοῖσ E.IT99 (more naturally κλῄθρων μοχλοὺς λύσαντεσ, as in Ar.Lys.310 κἂν μὴ ..τοὺς μοχλοὺς χαλῶσιν): metaph., μέγας σοι τοῦδ' ἐγὼ φόβου μ. a bar
or defence against
fear. S.Fr.760.
- William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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