βαθμός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or [[βασμός]], ὁ, ([[βαίνω]]) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[step]], [[threshold]], LXX I<span class="title">Ki.</span>5.5, [S.]<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>1127</span>; [[degree]] on the dial, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">4 Ki.</span>20.9</span> sq.; [[fifteen degrees]] of the zodiac, <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.31.2</span>; [[interval]] in a musical scale, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">VP</span>26.120</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[rung]] of a ladder, Luc.<span class="title">Trag.</span>221. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[base]] or [[plinth]] of a [[tower]], <span class="title">GDI</span>5524.10 (Cyzicus). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[step]], [[degree]] in rank (οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι <span class="bibl">Artem.2.42</span>), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Ti.</span>3.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Procop.<span class="title">Arc.</span>24</span>, Lyd.<span class="title">Mag.</span>2.8, al.; οἱ τᾶς ἀξίας βάσμοι <span class="title">IG</span>12(2).243.16 (Mytil.); simply, [[degree]], τολμημάτων βαθμοί <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>4.3.10</span>; ὥσπερ ἡδονῆς κλίμακα συμπηξάμενος ἔρως πρῶτον ἔχει β. ὄψεως <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Am.</span>53</span>; [[step]] in an [[argument]], <span class="bibl">Simp.<span class="title">in Cael.</span>718.35</span>; of a genealogy, [[ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν βαθμοῖν]] = [[two steps farther back]], i.e. farther back than one's [[grandfather]], <span class="bibl">D.Chr.41.6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[tax paid on stairs]], POxy.574 (ii A. D.): acc. to Phryn.296, <span class="bibl">Moer.97</span>, [[βαθμός]] is Ion., [[βασμός]] Att., but [[βασμός]] occurs <span class="title">GDI</span>5524.10 (Cyzic.), <span class="title">Jahresh.</span>3.55 (Scepsis).</span>