κράσπεδ-ον, τό,
edge, border, skirt, especially of cloth, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.53 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of the fringe or tassel worn by Jews, [[ NT.Matt.9.20: mostly in _plural_, ἄκροισι λαίφους κρασπέδοις (see. ἄκρος 1.2b) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 524; κράσπεδα στεμμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 475, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 43.30; χρυσᾶ κ. Chamaeleon Grammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.374a, 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.36, 37. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, mostly in plural, skirts or edge of a country, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 602, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 381 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a mountain, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.6.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς κρασπέδοισι στρατοπέδου on the skirts of the army, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 661; τοὺς πελταστὰς ἐπὶ τὰ κ. ἑκατέρωθεν καθίστασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in singular, Τιμολέοντα ὥσπερ ἐκ κ. τινὸς λεπτοῦ τῆς πολίχνης τῇ Σικελίᾳ προσηρτημένον [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 11; κ. αἰγιαλοῦ “Anthologia Graeca” 7.78 (Dionysius Epigrammaticus Cyzic.). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 in Medicine texts, affection of the uvula, fimbria, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.8. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]