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στρόβιλος, ball, spinning top, dance, cyclone

στρόβῑλ-ος, ὁ, (στρόβος)
  • round ball, στρόβιλος ἀμφάκανθον εἱλίξας δέμας rolling its prickly body into a ball, of the hedgehog (ἐχῖνος), Ion Trag. 38.4; ὀστράκου σ. the ball of an egg-shell, i.e. a round egg-shell, Lyc. 506, cf. 89.
      • 2 spinning-top, Pl. R. 436d, Plu. Lys. 12.
      • 3 cyclone, whirlwind, Arist. Mu. 395a7, Epicur. Ep. 2 p.47 U., Men. 536.4 (metaph., Id. Sam. 210); τρικυμίαι καὶ σ. Luc. Tox. 19, cf. Aristid. 1.164J., Poll. 4.159.
      • 4 twist or turn in music, Pherecr. 145.14, Pl.Com. 254.
      • 5 whirling dance, pirouette, Καρκίνου στρόβιλοι Ar. Pax 864, cf. Ath. 14.630a.
      • 6 later (Phryn. 374, Gal. 6.591, 15.848), = κῶνος, pine-cone, Thphr. HP 3.9.1, POxy. 1088.55 (i A.D.), 1211.6 (ii A.D.), etc.; κόκκοι στροβίλου IG 14.966.12 (Rome).
      • 7 fir, pine, PCair.Zen. 157 (iii B.C.), Plu. QConv. 2.648d.
      • 8 stone pine, Pinus Cembra, Dsc. 1.69, Gp. 11.11.1.
      • 9 winch, or perh. rotating shaft, POxy. 1704.11 (iii A.D.); τὸ μυλαῖον σὺν τῷ στροβίλλῳ (sic) PMerton 39.9 (v/vi A.D.).
      • 10 = κοχλίας ἢ θαλάττιος κῆρυξ, Sch. Ar. Pax 864.
      • 11 dub. sens. in PMag.Osl. 1.339, BCH 51.395. [ῑ regularly, as in ll.cc.; but ῐ in signf. 6, AP 6.232 (Crin. (?), dub.).]

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