ἁψίς
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Ep. and Ion. ἀψίς, ῖδος, ἡ, (ἅπτω)
A loop, mesh, such as form a net, ἀψῖσι λίνου Il.5.487; ἁψῖδες nets, A.R.3.138, Opp.H.4.146. 2 felloe of a wheel, Hes.Op.426, Lyr.in PLG3.740; the wheel itself, Hdt.4.72, E.Hipp.1233; κύκλος ἁψῖδος the potter's wheel, APl.4.191 (Nicaenet.). 3 in Archit., dowel-pin, IG11(2).161A70 (De<*>los, iii B. C.). 4 disk, τὴν ἡμερίαν ἁψῖδα, of the sun, E.Ion 88; segment cut off by rainbow, Arist.Mete.371b28, cf. Poet. ap. Plu.2.103f. 5 arch or vault (cf. ψαλίς 11), ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπουράνιον ἁψῖδα Pl.Phdr.247b, cf. Suid. s.v. αἰθεροβατεῖν, Epigr.Gr.1078 (Adana), IGRom.3.975, PMag.Lond.46.41; κατὰ τὴν ἁψῖδα ποτώμενος Luc.Bis Acc.33; triumphal arch, D.C.53.22,26, etc.: metaph., κάμπτειν ἐπῶν ἁψῖδας Ar.Th. 53. b σελάνας ἐς δεκάταν ἁψῖδα in the moon's tenth orbit, i. e. the tenth month, Hymn.Is.38. c ἡ ἀνωτάτω ἁ. θεάτρου uppermost tier, D.C.61.17. (ἅψῐδα in late Poets, Epigr.Gr.440.9,445.4.)