A.razor, E.El.241, Ar.Ec.65, Th.219, Nic.Al.411, Plu. Art.29, etc.: prov., ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἵσταται ἀκμῆς . . , ὄλεθρος ἠὲ βιῶναι death or life is balanced on a razor's edge, Il.10.173 : freq. in later authors, to express a delicately balanced like lihood of failure or success, “ἀκμᾶς ἑστακυῖαν ἐπὶ ξυροῦ Ἑλλάδα” Simon.97 ; “ἐπὶ ξ. γὰρ ἀκμῆς ἔχεται ἡμῖν τὰ πρήγματα” Hdt.6.11 ; “κίνδυνος ἐπὶ ξ. ἵσταται ἀκμῆς” Thgn.557 ; “βεβὼς . . ἐπὶ ξ. τύχης” S.Ant.996 ; ἔβητ᾽ ἐπὶ ξ. ; E.HF630 ; “ἐπὶ ξ. εἶναι” Theoc.22.6 ; “ἐπὶ ξ. ἑστηκέναι” Luc.JTr.3.
ξυ^ρόν , τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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