μίτρα

English (LSJ)

Ep. and Ion. μίτρη, ἡ, a piece of armour, apparently a metal guard worn round the waist, Il.4.137, 187,216, 5.857.    2 in later Poets, = ζώνη, maiden's girdle, Theoc.27.54 [μίτρᾰν cj., μικράν codd.], Call.Aet.3.1.45, Mosch.2.73, etc.; μ. λῦσαι A.R.1.288; λύσασθαι, ἀναλύεσθαι, Call.Jov.21, Del.222; παρθένον ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην Epigr.Gr.319; also, = στρόφιον, τὴν μ. ἣ μαστοὺς ἐφίλησε Call.Epigr. 39, cf. A.R.3.867, etc.    3 girdle worn by wrestlers, AP15.44.    4 surgical bandage, Q.S.4.213.    II headband, snood, μ. Λυδία νεανίδων . . ἄγαλμα Alcm.23.67, cf. E.Ba.833, Hec.924 (lyr.), Ar.Th. 257.    2 victor's chaplet at the games, Pi.O.9.84 (pl.), I.5(4).62: metaph., Λυδία μίτρα καναχηδὰ πεποικιλμένα, of an ode in the Lydian mode, Id.N.8.15.    3 headband as badge of rank at the Ptolemaic court, Arch.Pap.1.220.    4 oriental head-dress, perh. a kind of turban, Hdt.1.195, 7.90, Duris 14 J., etc.; as a mark of effeminacy, Ar.Th.941; diadem, Call.Del.166.    5 head-dress of the priest of Heracles at Cos, Plu.2.304c; of the Jewish high-priest, LXXEx.29.6, al.    III = ἐπιδιδυμίς, Hp. ap. Gal.19.123 (where μήτρη) . [ῐ by nature, E. ll. cc., etc.; ῑ by position in Hom.]