στάδιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], Argive [[σπάδιον]] (q.v.), τό: pl. [[στάδια]] and heterocl. [[στάδιοι]]; Hdt. uses both, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> στάδιοι <span class="bibl">1.26</span>, <span class="bibl">2.149</span>,<span class="bibl">158</span>, al., στάδια <span class="bibl">4.101</span>, <span class="bibl">5.53</span>, <span class="bibl">9.23</span>, al.; so Th. in the same chapter (<span class="bibl">7.78</span>) has [[στάδια]] once and [[σταδίους]] twice; στάδια <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>497</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>6</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.100</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>229c</span>; στάδιοι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1319</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Criti.</span>113c</span>, <span class="bibl">117e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span> 388.6</span> (iii B.C.), etc.; the sg. masc. is not found: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> as a standard of length, [[stade]],= <span class="bibl">100</span> [[ὀργυιαί]] or <span class="bibl">6</span> [[πλέθρα]] (<span class="bibl">Hdt.2.149</span>), i.e. <span class="bibl">600</span> Greek, <span class="bibl">606</span> <span class="bibl">3</span>/<span class="bibl">4</span> English feet, about <span class="bibl">1</span>/<span class="bibl">8</span> of a Roman mile, <span class="bibl">Plb.3.39.8</span>, <span class="bibl">34.12.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>2.85</span>, Hero <b class="b2">*Deff</b>.131; a longer [[stade]], of which there were 7 1/2 in a Roman mile, is implied by <span class="bibl">D.C.52.21</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[ἑκατὸν σταδίοισιν ἄριστος]] = [[best by a hundred miles]], <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Nu.</span>430</span>; πλεῖν ἢ σταδίῳ λαλίστερα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ra.</span>91</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[race-course]], IG22.677.3, etc. (because the most noted, that of Olympia, was exactly a stade long): prop. [[a single course]], opp. [[δίαυλος]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>13.37</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.2313.23, <span class="title">SIG</span>1067.9 (Rhodes, ii B.C.), etc.; σταδίου δρόμος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span> 13.30</span>; [[γυμνὸν στάδιον]], opp. [[ὁπλίτης δρόμος]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">P.</span>11.49</span>; ὠκύτερον σταδίου <span class="bibl">Thgn.1306</span>; [[ἀγωνίζεσθαι στάδιον]] = [[run a race]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.22</span>; ἁμιλλᾶσθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 833a</span>; νικᾶν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.2.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>8.16</span>; ἀσκεῖν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Thg.</span>128e</span>; of the building, <span class="title">IG</span>22.351.16, 677.3, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>93.16</span> (iii A.D.), etc.; [[ἐν σταδίοις]], i.e. [[in the amphitheatre]], <span class="title">CIG</span>4377 (Sagalassos). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[any]] [[area]], e.g. for [[dancing]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>497</span> (lyr.); [[ξύλινον στάδιον]], of a [[board]] for playing [[πεσσοί]], <span class="title">AP</span>15.18. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[walk]] in a [[garden]], <span class="title">IG</span>14.1853 (pl.).</span>