[Meaning] cleverness, mischief-making. "Your perjurous mouth has arrived here, possessing a lot of keenness."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] sto/mwson ['whet'], meaning sharpen.[2]
*sto/mwsis: dei/nwsis, panourgi/a. to\ so\n d' a)fi=ktai deu=r' u(po/blhton sto/ma, pollh\n e)/xon sto/mwsin. kai\ *sto/mwson, a)nti\ tou= o)/cunon.
The primary headword, a feminine noun in the nominative singular, may be a general lexical reference or may be excerpted from a literary source -- but, if so, not from the quotation given, where the word is accusative singular, nor from any of the extant literary attestations of the word (
Plutarch,
On the Oracles of the Pythia 395B;
Heliodorus,
Aethiopica 5.25.2;
Oribasius 44.10.4), in which the metaphorical meaning ascribed to the word here is not exhibited.
For related words
sigma 1132 through
sigma 1134, and
sigma 1137 to
sigma 1138, most particularly the last three.
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 794-5, with comments from the
scholia. The passage plays on the etymology of the headword, which is derived from the noun
sto/ma, meaning most commonly 'mouth', but also 'point of a knife'; thus the passage reads "your perjured
sto/ma ['mouth'] ... possessing a lot of
sto/mwsis ['keenness']."
[2] This is taken to be from commentary on
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1110 (context quoted more extensively in
sigma 1138), where one of the few attestations of this form of the verb
stomo/w, aorist active imperative, occurs in this sense.
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