στέμμα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ατος, τό, ([[στέφω]]) mostly in plural (sg. in <span class="bibl">Il.1.28</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>948</span>), <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[wreath]], [[garland]], [[chaplet]], especially of the [[priest]]'s [[laurel]]-[[wreath]], [[wound]] [[round]] a [[staff]], στέμματ' ἔχων ἐν χερσὶ . . χρυσέῳ ἀνὰ σκήπτρῳ <span class="bibl">Il.1.14</span>, <span class="bibl">373</span>; <b class="b3">σκῆπτρον καὶ σ. θεοῖο</b> ib.<span class="bibl">28</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>894</span>; sometimes worn on the head, σ. ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν ἐχούσας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>617c</span>; <b class="b3">Φοῖβος ἔλακεν ἐκ τῶν στεμμάτων</b> from [[shrine]] with [[chaplet]]s [[deck]]ed, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>39</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 1310</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.133</span>; used in sacrificial ceremony, <b class="b3">στέμμασι πυκασθείς</b> (of [[victim]]) <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.197</span>, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>1025.31 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); <b class="b3">σ. πάλας</b>, as a [[prize]], <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span> 247 (Mysia); <b class="b3">στέμματ' Ὀλυμπιάδων</b> ib.881 (Cyzicus), etc.; <b class="b3">ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν στεμμάτων</b> an official connected with the [[crowns of office]] of magistrates (cf. [[στεπτικός]], [[στέφανος]]), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>87i10</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>2130.7</span> (iii A.D.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>77.28</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> Sch.<span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>3</span> says the [[στέμματα]] were [[wreaths of wool]] wound round the olive-branch; hence στέμματα ξήνασ' <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in plural, [[στέμματα]] = [[pedigree]]s, [[family]] [[tree]]s, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Num.</span>1</span>; Lat. stemmata quid faciunt? Juv.8.1, cf. <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>35.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[guild]], <span class="title">CIG</span>3995b (Iconium);= [[φυλή]], ib.9897 (Smyrna, Jewish); <b class="b3">ὑπὲρ φιλοκυνηγῶν τοῦ σ</b>. [[guild]] of [[huntsman|huntsmen]], <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>3.499 (Philippi).</span>