προτομή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, (προτέμνω) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">front part cut off</b>: esp., </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">head and face of a decapitated animal</b> (rarely <b class="b2">of a decapitated man</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span> 15.35</span>, and of a boar with human head, Ps.-Plu.<span class="title">Fluv.</span>21.4), γλαύκου <span class="bibl">Antiph.132.4</span>; γρυπός <span class="title">IG</span>12.280.15; λέοντος <b class="b2">Inscr.Deélos</b> 442 <span class="title">B</span> 108 (ii B.C.); ἐλάφου <span class="title">OGI</span>214.41 (Didyma, iii B.C.); λύκου <span class="bibl">D.S.1.18</span>; <b class="b3">λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">62</span>; <b class="b3">Κερβέρου</b> ib.<span class="bibl">96</span>; Γοργόνος <span class="bibl">Corn. <span class="title">ND</span>20</span>; χηνίσκων <span class="bibl">Orib.49.4.28</span>; of a dolphin as figurehead, <span class="title">AP</span>7.215 (Anyt.); <b class="b3">π. ἵππου</b>, name of the asterism Eculeus, <span class="bibl">Gem.3.8</span>, Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>7.5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[cup]] in shape of animal's face, <span class="bibl">Philox.5</span>, <span class="title">IG</span> 11(2).287<span class="title">B</span>34, 134 (Delos, iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[bust]], ib.14.1518; <b class="b3">αἱ π. τοῦ Καίσαρος</b> the [[imagines]] or [[busts]] of the Emperor on the Roman standards, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>18.3.1</span>, cf. <span class="title">IG</span>22.1108.6, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ostr.</span>178</span> (ii A.D.), al.; π. τῆς ἀρχῆς Lyd.<span class="title">Mag.</span>3.21.</span>