στάδιον

στάδιον [pron. full] [ᾰ], Argive [full] σπάδιον (q.v.), τό: pl. στάδια and heterocl. στάδιοι; Hdt. uses both,

A

στάδιοι 1.26

, 2.149,158, al.,

στάδια 4.101

, 5.53, 9.23, al.; so Th. in the same chapter (7.78) has στάδια once and σταδίους twice;

στάδια E.Ion497

(lyr.), Ar.Av.6, Antiph.100, Pl.Phdr.229c;

στάδιοι Ar.Ra.1319

, Pl.Criti.113c, 117e, PCair.Zen. 388.6 (iii B.C.), etc.; the sg. masc. is not found:

I as a standard of length, stade,= 100 ὀργυιαί or 6 πλέθρα (Hdt.2.149), i.e. 600 Greek, 606 3/4 English feet, about 1/8 of a Roman mile, Plb.3.39.8, 34.12.4, cf. Plin.HN2.85, Hero *Deff.131; a longer stade, of which there were 7 1/2 in a Roman mile, is implied by D.C.52.21.

2 metaph., ἑκατὸν σταδίοισιν ἄριστος 'best by a hundred miles', Ar. Nu.430;

πλεῖν ἢ σταδίῳ λαλίστερα Id.Ra.91

.

II race-course, IG22.677.3, etc. (because the most noted, that of Olympia, was exactly a stade long): prop. a single course, opp. δίαυλος, Pi.O.13.37, IG22.2313.23, SIG1067.9 (Rhodes, ii B.C.), etc.;

σταδίου δρόμος Pi.O. 13.30

; γυμνὸν ς., opp. ὁπλίτης δρόμος, Id.P.11.49;

ὠκύτερον σταδίου Thgn.1306

; ἀγωνίζεσθαι ς. run a race, Hdt.5.22;

ἁμιλλᾶσθαι Pl.Lg. 833a

;

νικᾶν X.HG1.2.1

, cf. Pi.N.8.16;

ἀσκεῖν Pl.Thg.128e

; of the building, IG22.351.16, 677.3, PRyl.93.16 (iii A.D.), etc.; ἐν σταδίοις, i.e. in the amphitheatre, CIG4377 ([place name] Sagalassos).

2 any area, e.g. for dancing, E.Ion497 (lyr.); ξύλινον ς., of a board for playing πεσσοί, AP15.18.

3 walk in a garden, IG14.1853 (pl.).