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