κίων

English (LSJ)

[ῑ], ονος, Hom. (not in Il.), mostly

   A ἡ; ὁ Od.8.66, 473, 19.38, cf. Eumel.11, Ar.V.105, Hdt.4.184, etc.; ἡ Id.1.92, Pi.P.1.19, IG9(2).258.12 (Cierium, ii B.C.), al.:—pillar, freq. in Od. of roof-pillars, 19.38, al., cf. h.Ap.8; οἱ κ. οἱ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ Pl.Euthd.303b, cf. SIG969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, S.Aj.108, Aeschin. 1.59: prov., ἔσθι' ἐλθὼν τοὺς Μεγακλέους κίονας eat the pillars of his hall, for, being a spendthrift, he had nothing else left to give, Ar.Nu. 815.    2 of natural objects, [Ἄτλας] ἔχει . . κίονας αὐτὸς μακράς, αἳ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχουσι Od.1.53; [Ἄτλας] ἕστηκε κίον' (dual) οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς . . ἐρείδων A.Pr.351; ὁ κ. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (of Mount Atlas) Hdt.4.184; κίων οὐρανία, of Aetna, Pi.P.1.19; for the Pillars of Hercules, v. Ἡράκλειος 1.    II columnar gravestone, AP7.163 (Leon.): distd.from στήλη, And.1.38; κ. τετράπλευρος an obelisk, Epigr.Gr.1061 (Constantinople); any column bearing an inscription, ἀγγράψαι ἐγ κίονα λιθίναν IGl.c. (cf. p.xii); ἔσται ἡ στήλη ἐπὶ τοῦ κείονος ib.22.1368.29 (ii A.D.).    III uvula, κ. ἀνεσπασμένος Hp. Epid.1.26.έ, cf. Arist.HA493a3.    IV division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose, Ruf.Onom.37, Poll.2.79, 80.    V kind of meteor, Placit.3.2.5.    VI kind of wart, Hp.Nat.Mul.65, Mul.2.212 (where κιών, oxyt.). (Cf. Arm. siun 'pillar'.)