στάχυς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[στᾰχῡς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>5</span>, but στᾰχῠν <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Dian.</span>130</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.1.688</span>], υος, ὁ: pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> στάχυες <span class="title">IG</span>12.280.78,22.1424a333, etc.; Ep. dat. σταχύεσσιν <span class="bibl">Il.23.598</span>; acc. στάχῡς <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>393</span>, <span class="title">OGI</span>56.68 (Canopus, iii B.C.), but στάχυας <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ge.</span>41.7</span>, etc:—[[ear of corn]], in plural, Il.l.c., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>473</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>12.1</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας τῶν σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1284a30</span>: in sg., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>761</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>304.7</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>395</span>, and freq in <span class="bibl">E., <span class="title">Hec.</span>593</span>, al.: metaph., σ. ἄτης <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>821</span>; <b class="b3">ἐκ καλάμης . . στάχυες</b>, of [[Bacchylides]]' [[poem]]s, <span class="title">AP</span>4.1.34 (Mel.):—of the Theban [[Σπαρτοί]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>939</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HF</span>5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ba.</span>264</span>; of the [[crop]] [[reap]]ed by [[Cleon]] in capturing the [[Spartan]]s at [[Sphacteria]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>393</span>; <b class="b3">βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον σ</b>. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>757.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[scion]], [[progeny]], σ. ἄρσην <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>360.22</span>, cf. Lyc.214; <b class="b3">δισσὸν Βορέον σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">A.</span>218</span>; τέκνων <span class="bibl">Man.6.304</span>; Ἰνδῶν <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>18.267</span>; <b class="b3">Ἑλλάδος ἀμώων ἄγαμον σ</b>. <span class="title">AP</span>9.362.25. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> name of the [[chief]] [[star]] in the [[constellation]] [[Virgo]], [[Spica Virginis]], <span class="bibl">Arat.97</span>, Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>7.5: in plural, <span class="bibl">Man. 2.134</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[lower part of the abdomen]], Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.50.26</span> tit., <span class="bibl">Poll.2.168</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Eust.194.4</span>, <span class="bibl">410.17</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[base horehound]], [[Stachys germanica]], Dsc.3.106, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>24.136</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[νάρδου στάχυς]] = [[ναρδόσταχυς]], <span class="title">Gp.</span>7.13.1; <b class="b3">ὁ τῆς νάρδου στάχυς</b> Gal.6.267. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> [[surgical]] [[bandage]], '[[spica]]' [[bandage]], Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.48.46</span> tit., Gal.18(1).814. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> <b class="b3">παρὰ τοῖς ναυπηγοῖς τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς φάλαγγος μεριζόμενον</b>, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> = Heb. [[shibboleth]], <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Jd.</span>12.6</span>.</span>