δρύφακτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῠ], ὁ,</b> later τρύφακτος <span class="title">BCH</span>35.23 (Delos, iv B. C.), <span class="title">OGI</span>598.3 (Jerusalem), Hdn.Gr.2.595:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[railing]] or [[latticed partition]], serving as [[the bar]] of the courts of law, the council-chamber, etc., <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">V.</span>380</span>: mostly in pl., ὑπερεπήδων τοὺς δ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eq.</span>675</span>; ὑπὸ τοῖς δ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">V.</span> 386</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τοῖς δ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">552</span>, X <span class="title">HG</span>2.3.55: sg., δρυφάκτου τρόπῳ <span class="bibl">Apollod. <span class="title">Poliorc.</span>172.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[hand-rail]], <span class="bibl">Plb.1.22.6</span>, <span class="bibl">10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[balcony]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Ath.</span>50.2</span>:—written δρύφρακτοι, <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Or.</span>11.217</span>. (By dissim. for <b class="b3">δρύ-φρακτος</b> (φράσσω), cf. Lib. l. c., Hellad. ap. Sch.<span class="bibl">Orib.2p.746D.</span>, Sch.Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span> l. c.)</span>

|mdlsjtxt=δρύ-φακτος, ὁ, <i>n</i> [for δρύφρακτος,] [[δρῦς]], [[φράσσω]]<br />a [[fence]] or [[railing]], serving as the bar of the law-courts or [[council]]-[[chamber]], Ar.; in pl., like Lat. [[cancelli]], Ar.