A dictionary of Greek and Roman . fastigiisliarpaginetuli striati am crispis foliis et vohitis tene-m. The commentators have laboured in vain toexplain the term ; and it is even very doubtfulwhether the reading is correct. As the wordstands, it seems to refer to some sort of scroll- pattern. (See Schneider, Newton, and the othercommentators and translators, I. c, and an additionby Bailey to the article in Forcellini.) [P. S.] HARPAGO (apwdyn : \vkos: Kpzdypa, ), a grappling-iron, a drag, a flesh-hook.(Ex. xxvii. 3 ; 1 Sam. ii. 13, 14. Sept.; 1152 ; Anax
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . fastigiisliarpaginetuli striati am crispis foliis et vohitis tene-m. The commentators have laboured in vain toexplain the term ; and it is even very doubtfulwhether the reading is correct. As the wordstands, it seems to refer to some sort of scroll- pattern. (See Schneider, Newton, and the othercommentators and translators, I. c, and an additionby Bailey to the article in Forcellini.) [P. S.] HARPAGO (apwdyn : \vkos: Kpzdypa, ), a grappling-iron, a drag, a flesh-hook.(Ex. xxvii. 3 ; 1 Sam. ii. 13, 14. Sept.; 1152 ; Anaxippus, ap. Athen. iv. p. 169, b.)The iron-fingered flesh-hook (upedypa (TidrjpodaKrv-Aos, Brunck, Anal, ii. 215) is described by the Scho-liast on Aristophanes (Equit. 769), as an instru-ment used in cookery, resembling a hand with thefingers bent inwards, used to take boiled meat outof the caldron. Four specimens of it, in bronze,are in the British Museum. One of them is hererepresented. Into its hollow extremity a woodenhandle was A similar instrument, or even the flesh-hook it-self (Aristoph. Eccles. 994) was used to draw upa pail, or to recover any thing which had falleninto a well. (Hesychius, s. vv. Apirdyrj, Kpedypa,Avkos.) In war the grappling-iron, thrown at an enemysship, seized the rigging, and was then used to dragthe ship within reach, so that it might be easilyboarded or destroyed. (Apira£, Athen. v. p. 208, d.)These instruments appear to have been much thesame as the manusferreae (manits ferreae atque liar-pagones, Caes. B. C. i. 57 ; Q. Curt. iv. 9 ; DionCass. xlix. 3, 1. 32, 34). The manus ferreae wereemployed by the Consul Duilius against the Car-thaginians (Flor. ii. 2 ; Front. Stratag. ii. 3. § 24),and were said to have been invented by Pericles.(Plin. H. N. vii. 57.) £ [J. Y.] HARPASTUM (aprcto-TdV from apirdfa) wasa ball, used in a game of which we have no ac-curate account ; but it appears both from the ety-mology of the word and the stateme
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