(Stiris,ii B.C.)),place, region,first in A. (v. infr.), afterwds. freq. in all writers; periphr.,χθονὸς πᾶς τ.,i.e. the whole earth, A. Eu. 249 ; ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήνων τ.
;τ. ἔχεινalso=haveroom(to grow), Thphr. HP 1.7.1 ;τόπῳc. gen.,in place of, instead of,
Hdn. 2.14.5 ;ἀνὰ τόπονonthe spot, immediately,
E. Supp. 604 (lyr., dub.l.); so ἐν τόπῳ
IG 12(7).515.63
(Amorgos); ἐπὶ τόπου
Plb. 4.73.8
; ἐπὶ τῶν τ.
PEnteux. 55.5
(iii B. C.), UPZ 70.16 (ii B.C.), CIL 3.567.3 (Delph.,ii B. C.), POxy. 2106.23
(iv A. D.), etc.; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ.
S.E. P. 3.1
;παρὰ τόπονat a wrongplace,
Str. 10.2.21 , Arr. Epict. 3.21.16 (butπαρὰ τ. καὶ παρὰ καιρόνby virtue of theplaceand the time, ib. 3.21.14 ).
3. placeorpartof the body, Hp. Aph. 2.46 ,Loc.Hom.tit., Sor. 2.40 , al., Gal. in titles of works, e.g.περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπους;esp.ὁ τόπος, pudendum muliebre,
Arist. HA 572b28 , 583a15 , cf. Sor. 2.62 (pl.).
4. place, passagein an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας
Plb. 12.25f
. 1 , cf. Ph. 2.63 , Ev.Luc. 4.17 , Sor. 2.57 , 58 , etc.; the word is prob. interpolated in X. Mem. 2.1.20 .
5. burial-place,
IG 12(7).401 (Amorgos), al., Ev.Marc. 16.6 ; also in codd. of E. Heracl. 1041 (fort. leg.τάφον); laterὁ ἅγιος τ.is freq. of thegraveof a martyr, or of amonasteryassociated with it, PMasp. 94.18
(vi A.D.), etc.
6. in Egypt,district, department,a sub-division of theνομός,
= τοπαρχία , PMich.Zen. 43.8
(iii B. C.), Theb.Ostr. 27.2
(ii B. C.): but most freq. in pl.,ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τ. στρατηγός, πράκτωρ,etc., PEnteux. 27.9
(iii B. C.), PRein. 7.17 , 35
(ii B. C.), etc.;οἱ ἔξω τ.dub. sens. in PEnteux. 87.2
(iii B. C.), BGU 1114.6
(i B. C.), etc.
7. aroomin a house,τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίουib. 896.4
(ii A. D.); δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια
POxy. 1129.10
(V A.
D. ), cf. 502.34
(ii A. D.), 912.13
(iii A. D.).
8. positionon the zodiac, Vett.Val. 139.13 ; esp. the twelveregionsof 300 , Ptol. Tetr. 128 , Heph.Astr. 1.12 .
