ἁψίς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. and Ion. ἀψίς, ῖδος, ἡ, (ἅπτω) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">loop, mesh</b>, such as form a net, ἀψῖσι λίνου <span class="bibl">Il.5.487</span>; ἁψῖδες <b class="b2">nets</b>, <span class="bibl">A.R.3.138</span>, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>4.146</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">felloe</b> of a wheel, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>426</span>, Lyr.in <span class="title">PLG</span>3.740; the <b class="b2">wheel</b> itself, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.72</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1233</span>; <b class="b3">κύκλος ἁψῖδος</b> the potter's <b class="b2">wheel</b>, APl.4.191 (Nicaenet.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> in Archit., <b class="b2">dowel-pin</b>, IG11(2).161<span class="title">A</span>70 (De&lt;*&gt;los, iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">disk</b>, <b class="b3">τὴν ἡμερίαν ἁψῖδα</b>, of the sun, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 88</span>; <b class="b2">segment</b> cut off by rainbow, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>371b28</span>, cf. Poet. ap. Plu.2.103f. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">arch</b> or <b class="b2">vault</b> (cf. ψαλίς 11), ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπουράνιον ἁψῖδα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>247b</span>, cf. Suid. s.v. [[αἰθεροβατεῖν]], <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>1078 (Adana), <span class="title">IGRom.</span>3.975, <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>46.41; κατὰ τὴν ἁψῖδα ποτώμενος Luc.<b class="b2">Bis Acc</b>.33; <b class="b2">triumphal arch</b>, <span class="bibl">D.C.53.22</span>,<span class="bibl">26</span>, etc.: metaph., κάμπτειν ἐπῶν ἁψῖδας <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span> 53</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">σελάνας ἐς δεκάταν ἁψῖδα</b> in the moon's tenth <b class="b2">orbit</b>, i. e. the tenth month, <span class="title">Hymn.Is.</span>38. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> <b class="b3">ἡ ἀνωτάτω ἁ. θεάτρου</b> uppermost <b class="b2">tier</b>, <span class="bibl">D.C.61.17</span>. (<b class="b3">ἅψῐδα</b> in late Poets, <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>440.9,445.4.)</span>