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στεφάνη

στεφάνη, anything that encircles

στεφάν-η [ᾰ], ἡ, (στέφω)
  • anything that surrounds or encircles the head, etc., for defence or ornament:
    • I brim of the helmet, βάλʼ ἔγχεϊ ὀξυόεντι αὐχένʼ ὑπὸ στεφάνης εὐχάλκου Il. 7.12; σ. χαλκοβάρεια 11.96; the helmet itself, ἐπὶ στεφάνην κεφαλῆφιν ἀείρας θήκατο χαλκείην 10.30, cf. Plu. QConv. 2.726f.
      • 2 as a womanʼs head-dress, diadem, coronal, Il. 18.597, h.Hom. 6.7, Hes. Th. 578, Ar. Ec. 1034; found on statues, IG 2(2).1126.31 (Amphict. Delph., iv B.C.); distd. fr. στέφανος, in list of offerings, ib. 12.264.62, al.; of men, δωρήσασθαι χρυσέῃ στεφάνῃ τὸν κυβερνήτην crown of honour, Hdt. 8.118 (v.l. for χρυσέῳ στεφάνῳ); as a piece of outlandish luxury, Ar. Eq. 968: metaph., of a city, ἀπὸ στεφάναν κέκαρσαι πύργων thou hast been shorn of thy coronal of towers, E. Hec. 910 (lyr.), cf. Tr. 784 (anap.), AP 9.97 (Alph.).
        • b σ. τριχῶν the outer fringe of hair round bald or shaven crowns, as represented on comic masks, Poll. 4.144, cf. 2.40.
      • 3 Medic., sutura coronalis, Aret. CD 1.2, Poll. 2.39.
        • b in the eye, rim of the cornea where it joins the sclerotic, Gal. 18(2).47, UP 10.2, Ruf. Onom. 26, Hsch.; rim of the eyelids, Ruf. Onom. 20, Gal. 14.767; eyeball, Hp. Vid.Ac. 4.
        • c a circular muscle, such as the sphincter ani, Poll. 2.211; = corona glandis, Antyll. ap. Orib. 50.3.6, Ruf. Sat.Gon. 5.
        • d of animals, upper rim of the hoof, coronet, Opp. C. 1.232.
        • e in pl., stripes of the wild ass, ib. 3.188.
      • 4 a kind of laurel, of which crowns were made, v.l. for στέφανος 11.10 in Dsc. 4.145.
      • 5 Geom., plane figure contained between two concentric circles, Hero *Deff. 37.
        • b external periphery of a vault, Id. *Mens. 16.
      • 6 pl., rings composing the universe, Parm. ap. Placit. 2.7.1.
    • II brim or edge of anything, brow of a hill, edge of a cliff, Il. 13.138, Inscr.Prien. 361 (iv B.C.), 42.55 (ii/i B.C.), SIG 685.60 (Crete, ii B.C.), Plb. 1.56.4, Conon 35; τοῦ θεάτρου Plb. 7.16.6; Τείθρωνος IG 92(1).51.2 (Thermum, iii B.C.): generally, edge, border, moulding, Thphr. HP 5.6.2, LXX Ex. 25.23, al.; ταλάροιο Mosch. 2.55; τύμβου A.R. 2.918; parapet, LXX De. 22.8: pl., = αἱ τῶν βωμῶν ὠλέναι, Hsch.
      • 2 part of the ποδοστράβη, X. Cyn. 9.12, cf. Poll. 5.32.

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