σπεῖρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[anything twisted]] or [[wound]], <b class="b3">ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν</b> [[twist]] it into a [[ball]], Hp.''Morb.'' 2.33.<br><span class="bld">2</span> pl., [[coil]]s or [[spire]]s of a [[serpent]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Fragments|Fr.]]'' 535 (anap.), Ar.''Fr.''500; <b class="b3">πολύπλοκοι σ.</b> E.''Med.''481, cf. ''Ion'' 1164: so in sg., Nic.''Th.''156, A.R.4.151, Arat.47,89, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[rope]], [[cord]], Nic.''Fr.'' 74.21, [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] in Hp.''Steril.''235; <b class="b3">σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις</b> with the net's meshy [[folds]], S.''Ant.''346 (lyr.); [[ship's cable]], Plu.2.507b; [[padded circle]] used by women carrying weights on their head, Aët. 12.55; so by Atlas, Apollod.2.5.11; as a [[lamp-stand]], [[ἀρτεμισία]]ς σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον ''PMag.Lond.''121.601 (cf. [[σπειρίον]] ''III''); [[round cushion]], IG5(1).1390.24 (Andania, i B.C.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[a mode of dressing the hair]], Poll.2.31, 4.149.<br><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">σ. βόειαι</b> [[thong]]s or [[strap]]s of [[ox-hide]] to [[guard]] and [[arm]] a [[boxer]]'s fist, Theoc.22.80.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[knot]] or [[curl]] in [[wood]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 5.2.3, Plin.''HN''16.198.<br><span class="bld">7</span> a kind of [[cheesecake]] (al. [[σπῖρα]]), Chrysipp. Tyan. ap. Ath.14.647d.<br><span class="bld">8</span> [[rounded moulding]] in the [[base]] of an [[Ionic]] or [[Corinthian]] [[column]], [[torus]], IG12.372.64, ''Sardis'' 7(1) No.181 (i A.D.), ''CIG''2713-14 (Labranda), Poll.7.121, Vitr.3.5.3.<br><span class="bld">9</span> Geom., [[anchor-ring]], [[tore]], produced by [[revolution]] of a [[circle]] about a [[line]] in its [[plane]] but not [[passing]] through the [[centre]], Hero *Deff.97, Procl. ''in Euc.''p.119 F.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Milit., [[tactical unit]], in the [[Ptolemaic]] [[army]], ''BGU''1806.4 (i B.C.); used to [[translate]] the Roman [[manipulus]], Plb.11.23.1, al., Str.12.3.18, Plu.''Aem.''17; [[κατὰ σπείρας]] = Lat. [[manipulatim]], Plb.3.115.12; later, [[cohort]], Act.Ap.10.1, J.''BJ''3.4.2, ''IGRom.''1.10 (Massilia), 1373 (Egypt), al., ''OGI''208.2 (Nubia, ii A.D.), al. (gen. in this sense always σπείρης, ''Act.Ap.'' [[l.c.]], ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''477.3 (ii A.D.), ''BGU''73 (ii A.D.), ''OGI''l.c., etc.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> = [[θίασος]], [[religious]] [[college]] or [[guild]], gen. σπείρης ''IG''14.925 (Portus Trajani); dat. [[σπείρῃ]] ib.977 (Rome), ''Inscr.Perg.''319,320; nom. σπεῖρα ''AEM'' 14.28 (Roumania); Lat. [[spira]], ''CIL'' 6.261 (Rome), al. (cf. [[σπειράρχης]]).