A.club-rush, Scirpus Holoschoenus, Thphr.HP4.12.1,9.12.1, Dsc.4.52 : used in wicker-work, sts., like flax. soaked for use (βεβρεγμένος), sts. without soaking (ἄβροχος), Ael.NA12.43 : hence prov., ἀπορράπτειν τὸ Φιλίππου στόμα ὁλοσχοίνῳ ἀβρόχῳ stop Philip's mouth with an unsoaked rush (for rushes were soaked to make them tough), i.e. without any trouble, Aeschin.2.21 ; so “ἀποφράξαι ὁλοσχοίνῳ στόμα” AP10.49 (Pall.).
ὁλό-σχοινος , ὁ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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