σχοῖνος, ὁ,
also ἡ, [[(5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 34, “Pl.” 541 (_anapaest meter_), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.133, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 481, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.52, etc.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— rush, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.190, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλεκτὴ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “fragment” ] Refs 5th c.BC+][same place]; στιβὰς σχοίνων [[[prev. author] “Pl.” [prev. cited] (_anapaest meter_); σχοῖνοι ἐπὶ τὰς ὀροφάς “IG” 22.1672.101 ] Refs]; especially camel-hay, Cymbopogon Schoenanthus, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.7.1, “CP” 6.18.1, “Od.” 25, 33, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.49, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.17; σ. εὔοσμος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.18.1; σ. εὐώδης 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.78, compare 2.192, “Nat.Mul.” 33, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b σ. ὀξύς, σ. ἑλεία, σ. λεία, ={ὀξύσχοινος}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.12.1, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.52, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.136] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. κάρπιμος, ={μελαγκρανίς}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.12.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. Εὐριπική, ={ὁλόσχοινος}, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.52, compare 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 21.119 (its flower was called σχοίνου ἄνθος, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 110). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 reed, used as an arrow or javelin, [[ Batrachomyomachia 253 (as variant)] Refs]; as a 'thorn in the side', [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 230 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a spit, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 201 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a pen, [[ LXX.Jer.8.8 ] LXX]; as a means of exploring a narrow and crooked passage in the skull, καθιέντας ἢ σ. ἢ ὑείαν τρίχα [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.10. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]