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θόλος

θόλος, a round building with a conical roof, a vaulted chamber

θόλος, ἡ,
  • round building with conical roof, rotunda, Od. 22.442, al., cf. Hsch.
      • 2 at Athens, the Rotunda, in which the Prytaneis, etc., dined, Pl. Ap. 32c, And. 1.45, D. 19.249, Arist. Ath. 43.3, Alexand.Com. 9, Paus. 1.5.1; a similar building at Epidaurus, Id. 2.27.3; at Magnesia on Maeander, SIG 589.43 (ii B.C.).
    • II θόλος, ὁ, in public baths, vaulted vapour-bath, PMagd. 33.3 (iii B.C.), Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.501d, Alciphr. 1.23, POxy. 2145.6 (ii A.D.), PMag.Osl. 1. 75.
      • 2 bandage for the head, invented by Diocles, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.25 tit.

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