ἴσθμιον

A. anything belonging to the neck or throat, necklace, Od. 18.300.

2. ἴσθμια,τά, pharynx, fauces, Hp. Dent. 21, Nic. Al. 191,615, unless = παρίσθμια.

II. neck of a bottle, ἴσθμιον ἀμφιφορῆος Poet. ap. Suid.; big-bellied bottle with a long neck, Cypr. word in Pamphil. ap. Ath. 11.472e; v. ἴσφνιον.

2. curb-stone of a well, Phot., Moer.

3. part of dagger, perh. the guard, Philet. ap. Ath. 15.677c.

III. isthmus, Hsch.

IV. Ἴσθμια (sc. ἱερά), τά, the Isthmian games, held on the Isthmus of Corinth, Ar. Pax 879, etc.; Ἴσθμῑ ἐνίκα Simon. 153, cf. IG 12.606; Ἴσθμια . . ἐστεφανώθην Simon. 188; στέφος Ἴσθμῑ ἑλών Id. 158.