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στομόω

στομόω, to muzzle

στομόω, (στόμα)
  • muzzle or gag, Hdt. 4.69:—Pass., πώλους . . φιμοῖσιν . . ἐστομωμένας having their mouths muzzled, A. Fr. 326.
    • II (στόμα II) 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 (Pass.).
      • 3 metaph., provide with a mouth, i.e. with eloquence, prob. in E. Cret. 44 (Pass.).
    • III (στόμα III 1) of iron, harden, make into steel, in Pass., Ph. Bel. 102.20, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.943e; [ἔγχος] ἐστομωμένον Epigr.Gr. 790.5 (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. 18Ap.97H. (Pass.):—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 Pass., [δράκαινα] ἐχίδναις ἐστομωμένη E. IT 287.

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