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σκυ^τα?́λ-ιον , τό, Dim. of σκύτα^λον,
A.little staff, baton, “σκυτάλι᾽ ἐφόρουν” Ar.Av.1283, where the Sch. remarks on the exceptional quantity σκυτα_λι᾽ ἐφόρουν, quoting Fr. 422 (where it may well be short), Nicopho 2, and other examples; ἐσκυ^τα^λιοφόρουν Porson.
2. little pipe, flute, Poll.4.82, and perh. so in Thphr.HP4.4.12.
3. lever, handle for turning a windlass, etc., Hero Spir.1.43; support, Orib.49.4.41.
4. cog, tooth, on a wheel, Hero Dioptr.34 (pl.).
5. dub. sens., “σφαιρίον ς. οὐκ ἔχον” BCH29.546 (Delos, ii B.C.).
II. = κοτυληδών 5, Dsc.4.91.
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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