LogeionPerseus analysis of κώπῃ:
κώπη (handle): fem dat sg (attic epic ionic)
LSJ entry
κώπη
κώπη,
ἡ,
1. handle of an oar,
Hsch.:
hence, the oar itself (not in Il.),
ἐμβαλέειν κώπῃς Od. 9.489;
κώπῃσιν ἁλὸς ῥηγμῖνα . . τύπτετε 12.214,
cf. Sapph. 120,
etc.; οἱ τὰς κ. ξύοντες Thphr. HP 5.1.6,
cf. κωποξύστης; κώπαν σχάσον,
metaph., ‘stay thy hand’, Pi. P. 10.51;
νερτέρᾳ προσήμενος κώπῃ, = θαλαμίτης, metaph., of a man of low rank, A. Ag. 1618;
πομπίμοις κώπαις ἐρέσσων S. Tr. 561;
παραπέμπειν ἐφʼ ἕνδεκα κώπαις,
a prov. of dub. origin, meaning ‘to escort with all the honours’, Ar. Eq. 546,
cf. Eust. 1540.44,
Suid. s.v. ἐφʼ ἕνδεκα; κώπαισι πλεῖν take to the oars,
when the wind fails, Men. 241;
κώπαις ποιεῖσθαι τὸν πλοῦν Arist. IA 710a19:
poet., to express ships, κλεινᾷ σὺν κώπᾳ,
of Agamemnonʼs fleet, E. IT 140 (lyr.), cf. Hel. 1272,
1452 (lyr.).