στάσιμος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ον, ([[στάσις]]): <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> Act., [[checking]], [[stopping]], <b class="b3">τὰ στάσιμα τοῦ αἵματος</b> [[styptics]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>2.110</span>; of foods,= [[στατικός]] ''1'', <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Vict.</span>2.54</span>,<span class="bibl">55</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Pass., [[brought to a stand]], [[standing]], [[stationary]]: of water, [[stagnant]], Id.Aėr.<span class="bibl">7</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>20.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Aen.Tact.8.4</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">στασιμώτατος ποταμῶν</b> Id.Aër.<span class="bibl">15</span>; <b class="b3">στάσιμον αἷμα</b> Id.<span class="title">Acut.</span> (<span class="title">Sp.</span>9; <b class="b3">στάσιμα ὕδατα</b>, opp. [[ῥυτά]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>353b19</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[stable]], [[steadfast]], opp. [[ὑγρός]] and [[ῥοώδης]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>2.111</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span> 1</span>, <span class="bibl">Diog.Apoll.5</span> (Comp.); <b class="b3">τὸ ψυχρὸν ἔοικε στάσιμον εἶναι</b>, opp. [[κινητικόν]], Plu.2.945f; στάσιμος κίνησις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>256b</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>180b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>717a30</span> (Comp.); [[πνεῦμα]] <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>5.12.11</span>; βίος <span class="title">BCH</span>51.148 (Salamis Cypr.); <b class="b3">στάσιμα ἄστρα</b> [[fixed]], <span class="bibl">Poll.4.156</span>; <b class="b3">στάσιμα ὄργανα</b> defined in <span class="bibl">Orib.49.2.6</span>. Adv. [[στασίμως]] <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>29</span>: Comp. [[στασιμωτέρως]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>55e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of men, [[steadfast]], [[steady]], <b class="b3">φύσεις κόσμιοι καὶ στάσιμοι</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>539d</span>; τὰ στάσιμα γένη ἐξίσταται εἰς νωθρότητα <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Rh.</span>1390b30</span>; φρόνιμος καὶ στάσιμος ἄνθρωπος <span class="bibl">Plb.27.15.10</span>; <b class="b3">στασιμώτερος</b>, opp. [[τολμηρότερος]], <span class="bibl">Id.21.7.5</span>: <b class="b3">τὸ στάσιμον</b> = [[steadiness]], <span class="bibl">Id.6.58.13</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ στάσιμον τῆς ἵππου</b> the [[heavy]] [[cavalry]], <span class="bibl">Id.3.65.6</span>; οἱ στασιμώτατοι τῶν ἀνδρῶν <span class="bibl">Id.15.16.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of music, ἡ Δωριστὶ στασιμωτάτη καὶ μάλιστα ἦθος ἔχουσα ἀνδρεῖον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1342b13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1340b9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>922b15</span>; <b class="b3">μέτρον στασιμώτατον</b>, of [[heroic]] [[verse]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Po.</span>1459b34</span>; <b class="b3">λέξις στάσιμος</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1125a14</span>:—but, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[στάσιμον]], [[τό]], in Tragedy, [[choral]] [[song]], distd. by Aristotle fr. [[πάροδος]] and defined as <b class="b3">μέλος χοροῦ τὸ ἄνευ ἀναπαίστου καὶ τροχαίου</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Po.</span> 1452b23</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>6.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.4.53</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.13.592b</span>; expld. as sung by the chorus when [[stationary]], <b class="b3">στάσιμον μέλος ὃ ᾄδουσιν ἱστάμενοι οἱ χορευταί</b> Sch. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1314</span>, cf. Arg.A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>270</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>216</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>690.49</span>, <span class="bibl">725.2</span>; cf. [[στάδην]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">ἀργύριον στάσιμον</b> [[money]] out at [[interest]], Lex Solonis ap.<span class="bibl">Lys.10.18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> (στάσις A. 11) [[weighed]], [[weighable]]: <b class="b3">τὰ στάσιμα</b> = [[σταθμία]], <span class="bibl">Cephisod.13</span>; <b class="b3">θεωρῶν . . τὸν ἄνδρα . . ἕλκοντα τὸ τῆς πράξεως στάσιμον</b>. <span class="bibl">Plb.8.19.2</span>.</span>