[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <b><G>phda/lion</G></b> (<G>phdo/n</G>): steering-oar or <i>rudder</i>, Od. 3.281, Od. 5.255. (Strictly, the word probably denotes the handle or <pb n=232> bar connecting the two rudders, and serving to move them. See cuts Nos. 87, 88, and cf. Nos. 37, 38, 60. The adjoining cuts represent the rudders of Egyptian ships; in the first cut both rudders are depicted as on one side of the vessel.) <figure n=100></figure>