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ἁψίς, a juncture, loop, mesh

ἁψίς, Ep. and Ion. ἀψίς, ῖδος, ἡ, (ἅπτω)
  • 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 PLG 3.740; the wheel itself, Hdt. 4.72, E. Hipp. 1233; κύκλος ἁψῖδος the potterʼs wheel, APl. 16.191 (Nicaenet.).
      • 3 in Archit., dowel-pin, IG 11(2).161A 70 (Delos, 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. Cons.Apoll. 2.103f.
      • 5 arch or vault (cf. ψαλίς II), ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπουράνιον ἁψῖδα Pl. Phdr. 247b, cf. Suid. s.v. αἰθεροβατεῖν, Epigr.Gr. 1078 (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 moonʼs 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.)

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