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|Definition=όνος, ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[straight rod]], [[bar]], esp. to keep a thing straight: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> in plural, [[stave]]s which preserved the shape of the [[shield]], [[ἀσπίς|ἀσπίδα]] δύω κανόνεσσ' ἀραρυῖαν <span class="bibl">Il.13.407</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">8.193</span>, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>21.257a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[weaver's rod]], to which alternate threads of the warp were attached, <span class="bibl">Il. 23.761</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>822</span> (anap.), Plu.2.156b, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>37.631</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[ruddled line]] used by masons or carpenters, πύργους… ὀρθοῖσιν ἔθεμεν κανόσιν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>6</span>; βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι… ἡρμοσμένα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HF</span>945</span>; also κ. λίθινος [[rule]], [[straight-edge]], IG12.313.113, 373.217, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>56b</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ages.</span>10.2</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>11.120 (Callicter); ὥστε τέκτονος παρὰ στάθμην ἰόντος ὀρθοῦται κ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>474.5</span>; κανόνα προσφέρειν <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.199</span>; ποιῶν ὀρθὰ πάντα πρὸς κανόνα <span class="title">IG</span>7.3073.108 (Lebad., ii B. C.); κανόνεσσι… μετρήσασθαι <span class="bibl">A.R.1.724</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1004</span>; [[μολίβδινος]] κ., i.e. a [[flexible]] [[rule]] that cannot be depended on for straight [[measurement]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1137b31</span> (unless = [[κῦμα]]); κανόνα ποιῆσαι στρεβλόν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1354a26</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[ruler]], AP6.63.2 (Damoch.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> metaph., κανόνες καὶ πήχεις ἐπῶν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>799</span>; λαμπρὰ μὲν ἀκτὶς ἡλίου, κ. [[σαφής]] <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>650</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[beam]] or [[tongue]] of the [[balance]], στῆσαι ἐκ κανόνος <span class="title">AP</span>11.334, cf. Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>811</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[curtain-rod]], <span class="bibl">Chares<span class="title">Fr.</span> 4J.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> in plural, [[reed]]s of a wind-organ, <span class="title">AP</span>9.365 (Jul. Imp.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> [[bedpost]], <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ju.</span>13.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> in plural, [[pole]]s from which the [[ancilia]] were suspended when carried, <span class="bibl">D.H.2.71</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> pl., [[bar]]s of a [[window]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>5.547.9</span>(iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">10</span> in Music, [[monochord]], [[κατατομὴ]] [[κανόνος]], title of work by Euc., cf. Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>p.100K., <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Harm.</span> 1.8</span>, <span class="bibl">2.12</span>; [[ὀκτάχορδος]], [[πεντεκαιδεκάχορδος]] κανών, ib.<span class="bibl">2.2</span>, <span class="bibl">3.1</span> tit. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">11</span> [[cross-bar]] of [[κιθάρα]], Porph.inHarm.p.207. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[rule]], [[standard]], κανόνι τοῦ καλοῦ μαθών <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>602</span>; γνώμης πονηροῖς κανόσιν ἀναμετρούμενος τὸ σῶφρον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>52</span>; κανόνα προσάγειν Luc.<span class="title">Hist. Conscr.</span>5; of the law, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.9</span>; ὁ [[σπουδαῖος]]… ὥσπερ κ. καὶ μέτρον αὐτῶν (''[[sc.]]'' καλῶν καὶ ἡδέων) ὤν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1113a33</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>3.4.5</span>; τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν' ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖς προτέροις Ἕλλησιν ὅροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνες <span class="bibl">D.18.296</span>; ὡς κανόνι τῷ πάθει πᾶν ἀγαθὸν κρίνοντες <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>3p.63U.</span>; ὁ Ἐπικούρου κανών = his [[treatise]] on Logic, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>34</span>, <span class="bibl">Damox.2.15</span>; ὁ τῆς φιλοσοφίας κανών <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">4 Ma.</span>7.21</span>: [[Κανόνες]], οἱ, title of [[treatise]] by [[Democritus]]; of a philosophic [[principle]], <span class="bibl">Dam.<span class="title">Pr.</span>312</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in Art, [[model]], [[standard]], ὁ κανών, a [[statue]] by [[Polyclitus]] which furnished a [[model]] of [[proportion]]s, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>34.55</span>; also his treatise on the same, <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.3.122</span> (adnot.); also in Literature, Ἡρόδοτος τῆς Ἰάδος ἄριστος κανών, [[Θουκυδίδης]] δὲ τῆς Ἀτθίδος <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Pomp.</span>3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> of a person, [[severe]] [[critic]], κανών [[scriptorum]], <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Fam.</span> 16.17.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Gramm., [[general rule]], AB1180, Choerob.inTheod.2 p.xxi; [[paradigm]], οἱ κανόνες τῶν ὀνομάτων <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Adv.</span> 141.25</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> metrical [[scheme]] showing all possible forms of a verse, <span class="bibl">Heph.14.1</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> in Astronomy and Chronology, [[table]] of dates, κανόνες Χρονικοί <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Sol.</span>27</span>; sg., [[κανών]], ὁ</b>, [[system of chronology]], <span class="bibl">D.H.1.74</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[astrological]] [[table]], κανόνων καὶ εἰσόδων πήξεις <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.108.19</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[limit]], [[boundary]], expl. as [[τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πηδήματος]], <span class="bibl">Poll.3.151</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> '[[province]]', [[sphere of action]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">2 Ep.Cor.</span>10.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> [[assessment]] for [[taxation]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>1.99.5</span> (iv A. D.), etc.; οἱ δεσποτικοὶ κανόνες = the Imperial [[tax]]es, ib.<span class="bibl">234.9</span> (iv A. D.); ἰδιωτικὸς κανών <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>2124.10</span> (iv A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> [[tariff]], Stud.Pal.20.143.5 (v/vi A. D.).</span>