πάσσᾰλος,
Attic dialect πάττ-, ὁ, Epic dialect genitive πασσαλόφι (see. below), (πήγνυμι) peg on which to hang clothes, arms, etc., ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.268, compare 5.209; ἀπὸ πασσάλου αἴνυτο τόξον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.53; ἀπὸ φόρμιγγα πασσάλου λάμβαν᾽ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.17, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “Scolia” 1361.1.1; ἐκ πασσαλόφι κρέμασεν φόρμιγγα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.67; χαλινοὺς.. ἐκ πασσάλων δέουσι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.72, see.{ἐκ} 1.6; [χιτῶνα] πασσάλῳ ἀγκρεμάσασα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.440; κύλιξ.. κρέμαται περὶ πασσαλόφιν 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 55; ἐπὶ τῶν παττάλων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 681a25; παττάλους ἐνέκρουεν εἰς τὸν τοῖχον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 129 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; peg for making a hole in a vine-stem, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.5.5, “CP” 3.12.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; used to force open the mouth or as a gag, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 376, “Th.” 222 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of stakes used to mark boundaries, [[ “IG” 14.352i38 (from Halaesa) ] Refs]; pale, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 140.7, +others:] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —proverbial of things very small or worthless, ἔχουσι μηδὲ πάτταλον not a pin (i. e. no part of their fee), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 284; μηδὲ π. καταλιπεῖν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Jud.Voc.” 9; παττάλου γυμνότερος 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.18; also πάσσαλος πασσάλῳ ἐκκρούεται 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 126.13, compare “Comica Adespota” 494 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἶναι ἐν πασσάλοις, i.e. to be hung up, not in use, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 1.268. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]