στρῶμα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ατος, τό, ([[στρώννυμι]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> anything [[spread]] or laid out for [[lying]] or laid out for [[sit]]ting upon, [[mattress]], [[bed]], ἀσπάλαθοι δὲ τάπησιν ὁμοῖον στρῶμα θανόντι Thgn.1193, cf. PEleph.5.5 (iii B.C.), etc.; used on the funeral bier, IG12(5).593.3 (Ceos, v B.C.), Schwyzer 323 C 29 (Delph., iv B.C.): pl., [[στρώματα]] = [[bedclothes]], [[coverings of a dinner couch]], Ar.Ach.1090, Nu. 37, 1069, al.; of a bird's nest, Arist.HA616a2; στρώματα [[πορφυρόβαπτος|πορφυρόβαπτα]] = [[blanket]]s dyed with [[purple]], Pl. Com.208; coupled with [[ἱμάτια]], [[ἔπιπλα]], Lys.32.16; [[αἴρεσθαι]] τὰ στρώματα Ar.Ra.596 (lyr.); στρώματα [[ὑποσπᾶν]] to [[pull the bed from under one]], D.24.197: cf. [[στρωματεύς]] 1.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[horsecloth]], [[horse trappings]], X.Cyr.8.8.19, Antiph.109, cf. Poll.1.183; [[trappings]] of an ass, Luc.Asin.38.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[pavement]], IG12.313.71, 22.1666B37, 7.4255.6 (Oropus, iv B.C.), Inscr.Délos 502 A 24 (iii B.C.), IG12(8).380 (Thasos), etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> τὰ [[Στρώματα]] = [[Stromata]], a mistake for [[Στρωματεῖς]] ([[Στρωματεῖς]], "[[patchwork]]," i.e., Miscellanies), attributed to [[Clement of Alexandria]].