διάδημα: Difference between revisions

|txtha=διαδήματος, τό ([[διαδέω]], to [[bind]] [[round]]), a [[diadem]], i. e. the [[blue]] [[band]] marked [[with]] [[white]] [[with]] [[which]] Persian kings used to [[bind]] on the [[turban]] or [[tiara]]; the [[kingly]] [[ornament]] for the [[head]]: [[Xenophon]], Cyril 8,3, 13; כֶּתֶר; SYNONYMS: [[διάδημα]] [[στέφανος]]: [[στέφανος]], [[like]] the Latin corona, is a [[crown]] in the [[sense]] of a [[chaplet]], [[wreath]], or [[garland]] — the [[badge]] of [[victory]] in the games, of [[civic]] [[worth]], of [[military]] valor, of [[nuptial]] [[joy]], of [[festal]] [[gladness]] ; [[διάδημα]] is a [[crown]] as the [[badge]] of [[royalty]], βασιλείας [[γνώρισμα]] (Lucian, Pisc. 35). Cf. Trench, § xxiii.; Lightfoot on Dict. of Christ. Antiq. [[under]] the [[word]] Coronation, p. 464 f; B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Diadem; [[but]] cf. [[στέφανος]], a.]