θυρεός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, (θύρα) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[stone put against a door]] to keep it shut, <span class="bibl">Od.9.240</span>, <span class="bibl">313</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">oblong shield (shaped like a door)</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.428.36</span> (iii B.C.), Inscr. ap. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Pyrrh.</span>26</span>, <span class="bibl">Callix.2</span>; hence, of the Roman [[scutum]] (opp. [[ἀσπίς]],= [[clipeus]]), <span class="bibl">Plb.2.30.3</span>, <span class="bibl">6.23.2</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.4.16</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Eph.</span>6.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Apollod. <span class="title">Poliorc.</span>163.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Tact.</span>3.2</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[disk]] forming part of [[καθετήρ]], <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).287 <span class="title">B</span>68 (Delos, iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> Math., [[oval]], <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">in Euc.</span>1</span> <span class="title">Deff.</span>3,8.</span>