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κίων

κίων, a pillar

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κίονες Noun: common nominative plural, Noun: common vocative plural of κίων

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κίων [ῑ], ονος, Hom. (not in Il.), mostly 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, IG 9(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. SIG 969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, S. Aj. 108, Aeschin. 1.59: prov., ἔσθιʼ 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 κίονʼ (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 I.
    • II columnar gravestone, AP 7.163 (Leon.): distd.from στήλη, And. 1.38; κ. τετράπλευρος an obelisk, Epigr.Gr. 1061 (Constantinople); any column bearing an inscription, ἀγγράψαι ἐγ κίονα λιθίναν IG l.c. (cf. p.xii); ἔσται ἡ στήλη ἐπὶ τοῦ κείονος ib. 2(2).1368.29 (ii A.D.).
    • III uvula, κ. ἀνεσπασμένος Hp. Epid. 1.4.5 [1.26.εʹ], cf. Arist. HA 493a3.
    • 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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