- κίων
- κίων [ῑ], ονος, Hom. (not in Il.), mostlyA
ἡ; ὁ Od.8.66
, 473, 19.38, cf. Eumel.11, Ar.V.105, Hdt.4.184, etc.; ἡ Id.1.92, Pi.P.1.19, IG9(2).258.12 (Cierium, ii B.C.), al.:—pillar, freq. in Od. of roof-pillars, 19.38, al., cf. h.Ap.8;οἱ κ. οἱ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ Pl.Euthd.303b
, cf. SIG969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, S.Aj.108, Aeschin. 1.59: prov., ἔσθι' ἐλθὼν τοὺς Μεγακλέους κίονας eat the pillars of his hall, for, being a spendthrift, he had nothing else left to give, Ar.Nu. 815.2 of natural objects, [Ἄτλας] ἔχει . . κίονας αὐτὸς μακράς, αἳ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχουσι Od.1.53
; [Ἄτλας] ἕστηκε κίον' (dual)οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς . . ἐρείδων A.Pr.351
; ὁ κ. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (of Mount Atlas) Hdt.4.184; κίων οὐρανία, of Aetna, Pi.P.1.19; for the Pillars of Hercules, v. Ἡράκλειος 1.II columnar gravestone, AP7.163 (Leon.): distd.from στήλη, And.1.38; κ. τετράπλευρος an obelisk, Epigr.Gr.1061 ([place name] Constantinople); any column bearing an inscription, ἀγγράψαι ἐγ κίονα λιθίναν IGl.c. (cf. p.xii); ἔσται ἡ στήλη ἐπὶ τοῦ κείονος ib.22.1368.29 (ii A.D.).III uvula,κ. ἀνεσπασμένος Hp. Epid.1.26
.έ, cf. Arist.HA493a3.IV division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose, Ruf.Onom.37, Poll.2.79, 80.V kind of meteor, Placit.3.2.5.VI kind of wart, Hp.Nat.Mul.65, Mul.2.212 (where κιών, oxyt.). (Cf. Arm. siun 'pillar'.)
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