[1] cf. Philoponus, On words that have different meanings when accented differently sigma20; Hesychius sigma1380, sigma1381; Erotianus 120.9 Klein; Synagoge sigma164; Photius sigma427 Theodoridis. ps.-Zonaras 1664, citing Psellus 6.485, ascribes the meaning 'spasm' to the word with a paroxytone accent, an accentuation which is also attested numerous times in the Hippocratic Corpus (e.g. On Diseases 1.14). On the barytone ('heavy-tone') accent see generally Dickey 126 (4.2.9). On spadw/n and spa/dwn see the adjacent entries in LSJ; but for the (paroxytone) term in reference to eunuchs note sigma 897.
[2] This secondary lemma is an accusative singular form of the adjective neospa/s, but ambiguous in gender (masculine or feminine). The gloss, however, is in feminine gender, and the same gloss occurs in nu 209, in reference to the occurrence of the term in a poem by George the Pisidian (Heraclias 3 fr. 25), where it is applied to a finger or military phalanx (fa/lagga: grammatically feminine in Greek).
[3] Greek Anthology 5.204.5 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), a poem in which parts of an old woman are likened to those of a decrepit ship. Another excerpt from this epigram is at kappa 1301.
[4] This last phrase occurs only in the margin of ms M, Adler reports; cf. e.g. pi 780.