στῦλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ (fem. at Epidaurus, <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).102.66, al.(iv B.C.), but also masc. there, ib.109iii92 (iii B.C.)), <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[pillar]] ( = [[κίων]] acc. to Gal.6.544), esp. as a [[support]] or [[bearing]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.169</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>ll.cc.; στέγης <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>898</span>; δόμων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>50</span>; σ. μονόλιθοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1713</span> (ii/iii A.D.): metaph., σ. . . οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>57</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Gal.</span>2.9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Ti.</span>3.15</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> σ. πυρός <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>13.21</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Apoc.</span>10.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[wooden pole]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>203</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.22.4</span>; [[[σκηνῆς]]] tent-[[poles]], [[uprights]], opp. [[διατόναια]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span> 353.9</span> (iii B.C.); [[plank]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>47</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[stile]] for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East acc. to Herophil. ap. Gal.<span class="title">Anat.Ad</span> xiv (Arabic version, ii p.183 ed. M. Simon, Leipzig 1906); cf. [[στυλοειδής]].</span>