στεγανός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, ([[στέγω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[cover]]ing so as to [[keep out]] [[water]], [[watertight]], τρίχα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.10</span>; πλοῖα <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>554</span>; of other things, κλῶνες . . κεράμων στεγανώτεροι <span class="title">AP</span>9.71 (Antiphil.); <b class="b3">πυκνὸν καὶ στεγανόν</b> Plu.2.692a; προβλημάτων στεγανώτατον πρὸς ὀϊστούς <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span>45</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[enclosing]], [[confining]], δίκτυον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>358</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[closely covered]], [[sheathed]], <b class="b3">λευκῆς χιόνος πτέρυγι στεγανός</b>, of Polynices, represented as an [[eagle]], [[covered]] by his [[white]] [[Argive]] [[shield]] (cf. [[λεύκασπις]]), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>114</span> (anap.); of a building, <b class="b3">ἄνωθεν στεγανός</b> [[roofed over]], <span class="bibl">Th.3.21</span>, cf. <span class="title">Trag.Adesp.</span>115, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Cer.</span> 55</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.26</span>; οὓς [ναοὺς] . . δοκὸς στεγανοὺς παρέχει <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>472.6</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[strongly]] [[fortified]], πόλις <span class="bibl">Aristid.<span class="title">Or.</span>21(22).12</span> (Comp.); ἕρκη <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Decl.</span>23.77</span> (Sup.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[indoor]], [[δίαιτα]], opp. [[open]]-[[air]] [[life]], <span class="bibl">Ph.2.297</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> metaph., <b class="b3">τὸ ἀκόλαστον αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ στεγανόν</b> its [[intemperance]] and [[leakiness]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>493b</span>; and of persons, [[close]], [[reserved]], [[proverb|prov.]], Ἀρεοπαγίτου [[στεγανός|στεγανώτερος]] = more [[reserved]] than an [[Areopagite]] <span class="bibl">Alciphr.1.13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>21.263a</span>, <span class="title">Or.</span>26.323d, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[στεγανῶς]] = [[confinedly]], through a [[covered]] [[passage]] or [[tube]], <b class="b3">ἡ πνοὴ ἰοῦσα σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Th.4.100</span>; <b class="b3">πωμάσαι σ</b>. [[cover]] [[tightly]], Dsc.2.76.14: Comp., στεγανώτερον πρὸς τὰς τῶν ὑετῶν φορὰς ἀντέχειν <span class="bibl">Ph.2.513</span>; [[ναῦς]] στεγανώτατα ἔχει <span class="bibl">Aristid.<span class="title">Or.</span>34(50).31</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., στεγανώτερον φρονεῖν <span class="title">AP</span>5.215 (Agath.); στεγανώτατα κατεῖχεν ἔνδον τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην <span class="bibl">Memn. 6</span>.—Cf. [[στεγνός]].</span>