σπεῖρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[anything twisted]] or [[wound]], <b class="b3">ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν</b> twist it into [[a ball]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Morb.</span> 2.33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> pl., [[coils]] or [[spires]] of a serpent, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 535</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>500</span>; <b class="b3">πολύπλοκοι σ</b>. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>481</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ion</span> 1164</span>: so in sg., <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>156</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.4.151</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.47</span>,<span class="bibl">89</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[rope]], [[cord]], Nic.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 74.21, f.l. in Hp.<span class="title">Steril.</span>235; <b class="b3">σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις</b> with the net's meshy [[folds]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>346</span> (lyr.); [[ship's cable]], Plu.2.507b; [[padded circle]] used by women carrying weights on their head, <span class="bibl">Aët. 12.55</span>; so by Atlas, <span class="bibl">Apollod.2.5.11</span>; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>121.601 (cf. σπειρίον 111); [[round cushion]], IG5(1).1390.24 (Andania, i B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[a mode of dressing the hair]], <span class="bibl">Poll.2.31</span>, <span class="bibl">4.149</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">σ. βόειαι</b> [[thongs]] or [[straps]] of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer's fist, <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.80</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> [[knot]] or [[curl in wood]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>5.2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>16.198</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> a kind of [[cheesecake]] (al. [[σπῖρα]]), Chrysipp. Tyan. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.14.647d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> [[rounded moulding]] in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column, [[torus]], IG12.372.64, <span class="title">Sardis</span> 7(1) No.181 (i A.D.), <span class="title">CIG</span>2713-14 (Labranda), <span class="bibl">Poll.7.121</span>, Vitr.3.5.3. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> Geom., [[anchor-ring]], [[tore]], produced by revolution of a circle about a line in its plane but not passing through the centre, Hero <b class="b2">*Deff</b>.97, <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">in Euc.</span>p.119</span> F. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Milit., [[tactical unit]], in the Ptolemaic army, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1806.4</span> (i B.C.); used to translate the Roman [[manipulus]], <span class="bibl">Plb.11.23.1</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Str.12.3.18</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Aem.</span>17</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ σπείρας</b>,= Lat. [[manipulatim]], <span class="bibl">Plb.3.115.12</span>; later, [[cohort]], Act.Ap.10.1, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>3.4.2</span>, <span class="title">IGRom.</span>1.10 (Massilia), 1373 (Egypt), al., <span class="title">OGI</span>208.2 (Nubia, ii A.D.), al. (gen. in this sense always [[σπείρης]], <span class="title">Act.Ap.</span> l.c., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>477.3</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>73</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="title">OGI</span>l.c., etc.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> = [[θίασος]], [[religious college]] or [[guild]], gen. σπείρης <span class="title">IG</span>14.925 (Portus Trajani); dat. [[σπείρῃ]] ib.977 (Rome), <span class="title">Inscr.Perg.</span>319,320; nom. σπεῖρα <span class="title">AEM</span> 14.28 (Roumania); Lat. [[spira]], <span class="title">CIL</span> 6.261 (Rome), al. (cf. [[σπειράρχης]]).</span>