ἀστράβη

A. mule's saddle, an easy padded saddle, used by effeminate persons (Sch.D. l.c. infr.), ἐπ’ ἀστράβης ἂν ὠχούμην Lys. 24.11; ἐπ’ ἀστράβης ὀχούμενος ἀργυρᾶς (v.l. ἐξ Ἀργούρας) D. 21.133; τῶν ὑποζυγίων τὰ τριχώματα γίνεται λευκὰ ἐκ προστρίψεων τῆς ἀστράβης Arist. Col.interpol.post 798a19; εὐτελῶς ἐπ’ ἀστράβης Macho ap.Ath. 13.582c; μαλακίζομαι ἐπ’ ἀστράβης ὀχηθείς Luc. Lex. 2: prov., σοφόν γ’ ὁ βοῦς ἔφασκεν ἀστράβην ἰδών, Com.Adesp. 563.—Expld. as εἶδος ἁμάξης in Hdn.Gr.1.308; as the pommel of a saddle, EM 159.50, Hsch.; of the mule itself, Id., Harp., Eust. 1625.40.

2. Δημοσθένους ἀ., a kind of surgical appliance, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.4.34.