πλήστιγγες

πλάστιγξ, [dialect] Ion. [full] πλήστιγξ (v. infr. 111), ιγγος, ἡ,

A scale of a balance, Ar. Pax 1248 ;

παρίστασθον παρὰ τὼ πλάστιγγε Id.Ra. 1378

; τιθέναι εἰς πλάστιγγας, ἐν πλάστιγγι ζυγοῦ κεῖσθαι, Pl.Ti. 63b, R. 550e : metaph.,

ἀνώμαλοι πλάστιγγες ἀστάτου τύχης Trag.Adesp.179

;

ὅταν δαίμων ἀνδρὸς εὐτυχοῦς τὸ πρὶν πλάστιγγ' ἐρείσῃ τοῦ βίου παλίρροπον S.Fr.576.5

(prob. for μάστιγ')

; τὸ τεᾷ π. δοθὲν μακαριστότατον τελέθει Lyr.Adesp.139

;

ὥσπερ ἐπὶ πλάστιγγος ἀντιρρέπων Ph.2.170

;

εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν τιθεὶς π. τὴν μέθην τῇ μανίᾳ Ath.1.11a

.

2 disk poised on the top of the

ῥάβδος κοτταβική, καθ' ὅσον ἂν τὸν κότταβον ἀφεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν π. ποιήσῃ πεσεῖν Antiph.55.6

, cf. Hermipp.47.8 (anap.) ;

π. ἡ χαλκοῦ θυγάτηρ CritiasFr.1D.

, cf. Poll.6.110.

3 valve of an oyster-shell, Opp.H.2.179.

II collar for horses, E.Rh. 303.

III pl., surgical splints, Hippiatr.24,74 ; in form [full] πλήστιγγες, Hp. ap. Gal.19.131.

IV scourge, A.Ch. 290 (s. v. l.), cf. EM674.20, Hsch.

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `scales' (Att.), also `disk of the kottabos-standard' (Critias, Hermipp.), metaph. `oystershell' (Opp.), `horsecollar' (which hangs from the wood of the yoke like the scales from the weighbridge; E. Rh. 303), also (in plur.) `surgical splints' (Hippiatr.).

Other forms: πλήστιγγες pl. `id.' (Hp. ap. Gal. 19, 131).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Formation in - ιγγ- (Chantraine Form. 398ff., Schwyzer 498) from an unknown noun. As the designation of the scales (weighing-machine) and the Kottabosdisk is prob. to be derived from the flat form of it, one connects the root pelā- `broaden' (s. πλάξ). The nearest basis may be a noun *πλαστ(ο)-, which may stand for *πλατ-τ(ο)- (cf. on πλάτη), or for *πλαθ-τ(ο)- (s. πλάσσω). The usu. called "Ion." form πλήστιγ-γες which occurs once only, occurs only in a not quite clear specific meaning, can, if no derailment, represent a form πλᾱ-. -- On the debated πλάστιγξ A. Ch. 290 (for μάστιγξ?) s. Gentili Stud. itfilcl. N. S. 21, 105ff. -- Again, the form πλαθ- cannot be explained from IE; the suffix shows that he word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée).

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