δοκός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, later also ὁ, Luc.<span class="title">VH</span>2.1: (δέχομαι):—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bearing-beam]], [[main beam]], esp. in the roof or floor of a house, <span class="bibl">Od.22.176</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span> 1496</span>; any [[balk]] or [[beam]], <span class="bibl">Il.17.744</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.112</span>; [[bar]] of a gate or door, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>201</span>: also, in pl., [[firewood]], PFlor.127.5 (iii A. D.): prov., ὁ τὴν δοκὸν φέρων <b class="b2">one who has 'swallowed a poker'</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1413b28</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν δοκοῖσι</b> is prob. f. l. for [[ἐνδόκοισι]] in <span class="bibl">Archil.66.3</span>, cf. Hsch. s.v. [[ἔνδοκος]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[meteor]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>2.96</span>, <span class="bibl">Lyd.<span class="title">Ost.</span>10b</span>, Hsch.; cf. δοκεύς, δοκίας, δοκίς ''ΙΙ''.</span>