ἁψίς

ἁψίς, [dialect] Ep. and [dialect] Ion. [full] ἀψίς, ῖδος, ἡ, ([etym.] ἅπτω)

A loop, mesh, such as form a net,

ἀψῖσι λίνου Il.5.487

;

ἁψῖδες

nets,

A.R.3.138

, Opp.H.4.146.

2 felloe of a wheel, Hes.Op.426, Lyr.in PLG3.740; the wheel itself, Hdt.4.72, E.Hipp.1233; κύκλος ἁψῖδος the potter's wheel, APl.4.191 (Nicaenet.).

3 in Archit., dowel-pin, IG11(2).161A70 (De<*>los, iii B. C.).

4 disk, τὴν ἡμερίαν ἁψῖδα, of the sun, E.Ion 88; segment cut off by rainbow, Arist.Mete.371b28, cf. Poet. ap. Plu.2.103f.

5 arch or vault (cf.

ψαλίς 11

),

ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπουράνιον ἁψῖδα Pl.Phdr.247b

, cf. Suid. s.v. αἰθεροβατεῖν, Epigr.Gr.1078 ([place name] Adana), IGRom.3.975, PMag.Lond.46.41;

κατὰ τὴν ἁψῖδα ποτώμενος Luc.

Bis Acc.33; triumphal arch, D.C.53.22,26, etc.: metaph.,

κάμπτειν ἐπῶν ἁψῖδας Ar.Th. 53

.

b σελάνας ἐς δεκάταν ἁψῖδα in the moon's tenth orbit, i. e. the tenth month, Hymn.Is.38.

c ἡ ἀνωτάτω ἁ. θεάτρου uppermost tier, D.C.61.17. (ἅψῐδα in late Poets, Epigr.Gr.440.9,445.4.)