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|Definition=ἡ, ([[δέμω]], cf. ''EM''581.5) Att. [[μεσόμνη]] ''IG''22.1668.48, 53:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[tie-beam]], τοῖχοι μεγάρων καλαί τε μεσόδμαι Od.19.37, cf. 20.354 (expld. by Aristarch. as = [[μεσόστυλα]], by others as <b class="b3">τὰ μεταξὺ τῶν δοκῶν διαστήματα</b>, cf. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]); κρεμάσαι χρὴ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῶν ποδῶν πρὸς μεσόδμην Hp.''Art.''70; expld. as τὸ μέγα ξύλον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑτέρου τοίχου πρὸς τὸν ἕτερον διῆκον Gal. ad Hp.l.c. (18(1).738), cf. ''IG''ll. cc., ''SIG'' 248 ''N''8 (Delph., iv B. C.), Q.S.13.451.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[box amidships]], in which the mast was stepped, ἱστὸν… κοίλης ἔντοσθε μεσόδμης στῆσαν ἀείραντες Od.2.424.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[shelf]] built between the floor of the gallery and the roof, pl., ''IG''22.1668.74, 85: sg., ib.78.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[μεσόδμα]], Lacon. [[μεσσοδόμα]], = [[γυνή]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]

|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-0138.png Seite 138]] ἡ (d. i. [[μεσοδόμη]], von [[δέμω]]), eigtl. Zwischenbau; – a) Od. 19, 37. 20, 354 werden καλαὶ μεσόδμαι neben den τοῖχοι genannt, blendenartig vertiefte Zwischenräume, zwischen vortretenden Wandpfeilern, Hesych. erkl. μεσόστυλα. – b) der Querbalken des Schiffes, der in der Mitte hohl ist, um den Mastbaum darin aufzurichten, κοίλη, Od. 2, 424. 15, 289; Ap. Rh. 1, 563. – c) später übh. ein Quer- od. Tragbalken, bes. an welchem man große Lasten wägt, Wagebalken, Hippocr., VLL.