στήλη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Dor. στάλα, Aeol. στάλλα (q.v.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">block of stone</b> used as a [[prop]] or [[buttress]] to a wall, στήλας τε προβλῆτας ἐμόχλεον <span class="bibl">Il.12.259</span>; [[block]] of rock-crystal, in which the Ethiopian mummies were cased, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.24</span>: generally, [[block]] or [[base]], κόρη χρυσῆ ἐπὶ στήλης <span class="title">IG</span>12.256.5; μεταξὺ τοῦ κίονος καὶ τῆς σ. ἐφ' ᾗ ἐστιν ὁ στρατηγὸς ὁ χαλκοῦς <span class="bibl">And.1.38</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>25</span>; <b class="b3">σ. ξύλιναι, λέβητε ἀπὸ στηλῶν</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.314.130,133. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[block]] or [[slab]] used as a memorial, [[monument]]: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[gravestone]], <span class="bibl">Il.11.371</span>, <span class="bibl">16.457</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.12.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Hippon.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Simon.183</span>; ὥς τε σ. μένει ἔμπεδον, ἥ τ' ἐπὶ τύμβῳ ἑστήκῃ <span class="bibl">Il.17.434</span>; ὥς τε στήλην ἀτρέμας ἑσταότα <span class="bibl">13.437</span>; στῆλαι ἀπὸ σημάτων <span class="bibl">Th.1.93</span>; οὐ στηλῶν μόνον . . ἐπιγραφή <span class="bibl">Id.2.43</span>; μήτε στήλαις μήτε ὀνόμασι δηλοῦντας τοὺς τάφους <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>873d</span>; <b class="b3">στάλαν θέμεν Παρίου λίθου λευκοτέραν</b> (metaph. of a poet) <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>4.81</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[monument]] inscribed with record of victories, dedications, votes of thanks, treaties, laws, decrees, etc., <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.102</span>,<span class="bibl">106</span>, <span class="bibl">4.87</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>727</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.5.56</span>; <b class="b3">στήλη λιθίνη, χαλκῆ</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">47</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.13.18; <b class="b3">τί βεβούλευται περὶ τῶν σπονδῶν ἐν τῇ σ. παραγράψαι</b>; <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>513</span>; <b class="b3">τὰς θυσίας τὰς ἐκ τῶν κύρβεων καὶ τῶν σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Lys.30.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">And.1.96</span>, <span class="bibl">3.34</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν στήλῃ ἀναγραφῆναι</b>, whether for honour, as in <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.14</span>; or for infamy, as in <span class="bibl">And.1.51</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.9.41</span>, etc. (cf. <b class="b3">στηλίτης, στηλιτεύω</b>):—also the [[record]] itself, [[contract]], [[agreement]], στήλας ἀναγράψαι <span class="bibl">Lys.30.21</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ τὴν σ</b>. according to the [[agreement]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1051</span>; σ. αἱ πρὸς Θηβαίους <span class="bibl">D.16.27</span>; μάτην ἐν ταῖς σ. ἐστίν <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.176</span>; τῆς σ. τὰ ἀντίγραφα <span class="bibl">D.20.127</span>; <b class="b3">παραβῆναι τὰς σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Plb.24.8.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">post placed on mortgaged ground</b>, as a record of the fact, <span class="bibl">Poll.3.85</span>; cf. στίζω <span class="bibl">3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">boundary-post</b>, στήλας ὁρίσασθαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>7.5.13</span>; <b class="b3">στήλαις διαλαβεῖν τοὺς ὅρους</b> Decr. ap. <span class="bibl">D.18.154</span>; <b class="b2">turning-post</b> at the end of the racecourse, <span class="title">IG</span>12.817, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>720</span>,<span class="bibl">744</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>4.6</span>: hence περὶ στήλην διαφθείρεσθαι <span class="bibl">Lys.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> for <b class="b3">Στῆλαι Ἡρακλήϊαι</b>, v. [[Ἡράκλειος]], and cf. <span class="bibl">Str.3.5.5</span>; so <b class="b3">σ. Διονύσου</b> mountains in India marking the limits of the progress of Dionysus, <span class="bibl">D.P.623</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1164</span>. (Written <b class="b3">στήλλη</b> in some late Inscrr., <span class="title">CIG</span>3627.1 (Ilium), 3982.18 (Philomelium), al.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">column, among others peace-, treaty-column</b>, from there [[law]], [[treaty]]; also [[buttress]] (IA. since Il.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">στάλα</b>, Aeol. <b class="b3">στάλλα</b>.<br />Compounds: Rarely as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">στηλο-γραφέω</b> <b class="b2">to write on a column</b> (hell. a. late).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminutives <b class="b3">στηλ-ίον</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b>, <b class="b3">-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ῖδος</b>, <b class="b3">-ύδριον</b> (hell. a. late). 2. <b class="b3">-ίτης</b>, f. <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> <b class="b2">whose name is written on a column as a denouncement, publicly dishonoured</b> (Att.; Redard 114 f.) with <b class="b3">-ιτεύω</b>, <b class="b3">-ίτευμα</b> (late), also <b class="b2">column-shaped, belonging to columns</b> (Luc., AP). 3. <b class="b3">-όω</b>, <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b3">κατα-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">περι-</b>, <b class="b2">to erect (a column), to designate by columns, to demarcate, to write on a column</b> with <b class="b3">-ωσις</b>, <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> (hell. a. late).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: PGr. <b class="b3">*στάλ-να</b> (on the treatment of the group <b class="b3">-λν-</b> Schwyzer 283 f.); so to [[στέλλω]] (s.v.) with zero grade as in <b class="b3">ἐπί-σταλ-μα</b> a.o. (s. also [[στάλιξ]]). The same formation shows OHG OS [[stollo]] m. (<b class="b2">n-</b>st.) [[scafold]], [[upport]], [[post]], NHG [[Stollen]], IE <b class="b2">*stl̥-n-</b>. Here also Phryg. [[starna]] with change [[l]] > [[r]] (Haas Sprache 6, 14 a. 7, 80) ? -- Risch 102 considers as alternative a basic form <b class="b3">*στα-σλα</b> (cf. Lat. [[scālae]] < <b class="b2">*scand-slae</b>); to [[ἵστημι]]. -- Lyc. LW [loanword] [[sttala]] (Kretschmer Glotta 28, 103).