κωλάριον
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
τό, Dim. of κῶλον,
A fragment of a verse, hemistich, Ael. Dion.Fr.168, Sch.Ar.Pax179.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1542] τό, dim. von κῶλον; Schol. Ar. Pax 179; Eust. 881, 42.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κωλάριον: τό, ὑποκορ. τοῦ κῶλον, ἀπόσπασμα στίχου, ἡμίστιχον, Σχολ. εἰς Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 179, Εὐστ. 881. 42.
Greek Monolingual
κωλάριον, τὸ (Α) κώλον
τμήμα στίχου, ημίστιχο.
Wikipedia EN
A hemistich (/ˈhɛmɪstɪk/; via Latin from Greek ἡμιστίχιον, from ἡμι- "half" and στίχος "verse") is a half-line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, that makes up a single overall prosodic or verse unit. In Latin and Greek poetry, the hemistich is generally confined to drama. In Greek tragedy, characters exchanging clipped dialogue to suggest rapidity and drama would speak in hemistichs (in hemistichomythia). The Roman poet Virgil employed hemistichs in the Aeneid to indicate great duress in his characters, where they were incapable of forming complete lines due to emotional or physical pain.
