*forbai/a. kapi/strion.
The headword is a feminine noun in the nominative singular. It is a late form of
forbei/a,
halter for feeding (which ties a horse, for example, to a manger); cf.
kappa 340 (gloss),
phi 586, and see generally LSJ s.v. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F omits the entry, and ms A the glossing word.]
The basis for this entry -- and
phi 586 -- may be
Job 40.25
LXX ("will you put a feeding-string about [the serpent's] nose?"), which gave rise to patristic commentary.
[1] For the gloss (a Hellenization of the Latin
capistrum), cf.
kappa 331 (gloss),
kappa 340, and see generally LSJ s.v.
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