ἐπίστιον

• slip or shed for a ship, νῆες . . εἰρύαται· πᾶσιν γὰρ ἐπίστιόν ἐστιν ἑκάστῳ Od. 6.265. (Expld. by Aristarch. (ap. Sch. Il. 2.125 ἐπʼ ἴστιόν . . ὡσεὶ κατάλυμα παρὰ τῇ νηΐ) as Ion. for ἐφέστιον, cf. sq. [ἐπίστιος]; but elsewh. Hom. always uses the form ἐφέστιος; Sch. has ἐποίκιον, νεώριον . ., παρὰ τὸ ἱστίον.)

τό.

A slip on which to haul up a ship Od. 6.265.

• in Od. means a shed in which a ship is laid up. deriv. uncertain