σφαῖρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ας, ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[ball]], <b class="b3">σφαίρῃ παίζειν</b> play [[at ball]], <span class="bibl">Od.6.100</span>; <b class="b3">σφαῖραν ἔρριψε</b> ib.<span class="bibl">115</span>; σ. καλὴν μετὰ χερσὶν ἕλοντο <span class="bibl">8.372</span>; <b class="b3">σφαίρῃ ἀν' ἰθὺν πειρήσαντο</b> ib.<span class="bibl">377</span>; ὥσπερ σφαῖραν ἐκδεξάμενος τὸν λόγον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span> 277b</span>; <b class="b3">ῥαπτὴ σφαῖρα</b> <span class="title">AP</span>12.44 (Glauc.), cf. <span class="bibl">Nicom.Com.1.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.234</span>; διὰ σφαίρας . . ἐκπονῆσαι τὸ σῶμα Gal.6.134, cf. <span class="bibl">Sor.1.49</span>,<span class="bibl">93</span>; ἡ διὰ τῆς σ. [[ὄρχησις]] <span class="bibl">Ath.1.14d</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">σφαῖραν ἐποίησε τὴν οὐσίαν</b> (cf. [[συστρογγύλλω]]) <span class="bibl">Alex.246.3</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">σφαῖρα κατὰ πρανοῦς</b>, of [[accelerating]] [[motion]], <span class="bibl">Eust.249.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> any [[globe]], <span class="bibl">Parm.8.43</span>; [[sphere]], as a geom. figure, <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.95d</span>, etc.; esp. [[the terrestrial globe]], [[earth]], <span class="bibl">Str.2.3.1</span>; an [[artificial]] [[globe]], <span class="bibl">Hermesian.7.88</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.12.3.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[hollow]] [[sphere]] or [[globe]]: in the Ancient Physics, from the time of Anaximander (cf. <span class="title">Placit.</span> 2.16.5), of the [[sphere]]s believed to [[revolve]] round the [[earth]] carrying the [[heavenly]] bodies, and according to the Pythagoreans arranged after the intervals of the musical scale (cf. Alex.Eph. ap. Theon.Sm.<span class="bibl">p.139</span> H., Cic. <span class="title">de Rep.</span>6.18), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1073b18</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cael.</span> 286b24</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mete.</span>341b20</span>, <span class="bibl">354b24</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Ign.</span>4</span>; <b class="b3">σφαῖρα ἀπλανής</b> = ἡ τῶν ἀπλανῶν σφαῖρα = the [[sphere]] of the [[fixed star]]s, <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Hyp.</span>5.1</span>; so <b class="b3">ἡ ἀπλανής</b>, without ς., ib.<span class="bibl">7.25</span>; <b class="b3">αἱ πλανώμεναι σφαῖραι</b> [[planetary]] [[sphere]]s, Plu.2.1028a; Astrol., <b class="b3">ἡ ὀρθὴ σφαῖρα</b> = [[right]] [[sphere]], i.e. the [[celestial]] [[sphere]] as viewed from the [[equator]], Rhetorius in <span class="title">Cat.Cod.Astr.</span>8(1).231. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> a [[weapon]] of [[boxer]]s, prob. [[iron ball]], worn with [[pad]]ded [[cover]]s ([[ἐπίσφαιρα]]) instead of boxing-gloves (ἱμάντες) in the [[σφαιρομαχία]]ι, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>830b</span>, cf. Plu. 2.80b. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">αἱ σφαῖραι τῶν ὀμμάτων</b> [[eyeball]]s, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>958a7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">σφαῖραι θαλάττιαι</b> [[seaball]]s, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>616a20</span>, Crito ap.Gal.12.437. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> [[pill]], Archig. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.8.2.18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> <b class="b3">πλατάνου σφαῖραι</b>, i.e. [[globular]] [[catkin]]s, Dsc.4.73. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> as a quantitative measure, ἐπίβαλε . . φύκους στυπτηρίου ὡς σφαῖραν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHolm.</span>16.32</span>.</span>