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|Definition=ας, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[ball]], [[σφαίρῃ παίζειν]] = [[play at ball]], Od.6.100; <b class="b3">σφαῖραν ἔρριψε</b> ib.115; σ. καλὴν μετὰ χερσὶν ἕλοντο 8.372; <b class="b3">σφαίρῃ ἀν' ἰθὺν πειρήσαντο</b> ib.377; ὥσπερ σφαῖραν ἐκδεξάμενος τὸν λόγον Pl.''Euthd.'' 277b; <b class="b3">ῥαπτὴ σφαῖρα</b> ''AP''12.44 (Glauc.), cf. Nicom.Com.1.25, Antiph.234; διὰ σφαίρας . . ἐκπονῆσαι τὸ σῶμα Gal.6.134, cf. Sor.1.49,93; ἡ διὰ τῆς σ. [[ὄρχησις]] Ath.1.14d: metaph., <b class="b3">σφαῖραν ἐποίησε τὴν οὐσίαν</b> (cf. [[συστρογγύλλω]]) Alex.246.3: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">σφαῖρα κατὰ πρανοῦς</b>, of [[accelerating]] [[motion]], Eust.249.1.<br><span class="bld">2</span> any [[globe]], Parm.8.43; [[sphere]], as a geom. figure, Ti.Locr.95d, etc.; esp. [[the terrestrial globe]], [[earth]], Str.2.3.1; an [[artificial]] [[globe]], Hermesian.7.88, Str.12.3.11.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[hollow]] [[sphere]] or [[globe]]: in the Ancient Physics, from the time of Anaximander (cf. ''[[Placita Philosophorum|Placit.]]'' 2.16.5), of the [[sphere]]s believed to [[revolve]] round the [[earth]] [[carry]]ing the [[heavenly]] bodies, and according to the Pythagoreans arranged after the intervals of the musical scale (cf. Alex.Eph. ap. Theon.Sm.p.139 H., Cic. ''de Rep.''6.18), [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1073b18, ''Cael.'' 286b24, ''Mete.''341b20, 354b24, Thphr.''Ign.''4; <b class="b3">σφαῖρα ἀπλανής</b> = ἡ τῶν ἀπλανῶν σφαῖρα = the [[sphere]] of the [[fixed star]]s, Procl.''Hyp.''5.1; so <b class="b3">ἡ ἀπλανής</b>, without ς., ib.7.25; <b class="b3">αἱ πλανώμεναι σφαῖραι</b> [[planetary]] [[sphere]]s, Plu.2.1028a; Astrol., <b class="b3">ἡ ὀρθὴ σφαῖρα</b> = [[right]] [[sphere]], i.e. the [[celestial]] [[sphere]] as viewed from the [[equator]], Rhetorius in ''Cat.Cod.Astr.''8(1).231.<br><span class="bld">4</span> a [[weapon]] of [[boxer]]s, prob. [[iron ball]], worn with [[pad]]ded [[cover]]s ([[ἐπίσφαιρα]]) instead of boxing-gloves ([[ἱμάντες]]) in the [[σφαιρομαχία]]ι, Pl.''Lg.''830b, cf. Plu. 2.80b.<br><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">αἱ σφαῖραι τῶν ὀμμάτων</b> [[eyeball]]s, Arist.''Pr.''958a7.<br><span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">σφαῖραι θαλάττιαι</b> [[seaball]]s, Id.''HA''616a20, Crito ap.Gal.12.437.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[pill]], Archig. ap. Orib.8.2.18.<br><span class="bld">8</span> <b class="b3">πλατάνου σφαῖραι</b>, i.e. [[globular]] [[catkin]]s, Dsc.4.73.<br><span class="bld">9</span> as a quantitative measure, ἐπίβαλε . . φύκους στυπτηρίου ὡς σφαῖραν ''PHolm.''16.32.