βάσις [ᾰ], εως, ἡ,
(βαίνω) stepping, step, and collectively, steps, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 36, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 8, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἡσύχῳ φρενῶν βάσει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 452 (Lyric poetry); οὐκ ἔχων β. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]power to step, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 691 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τροχῶν βάσεις the rolling of the wheels, the rolling wheels, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 718 ] Refs]; ἀρβύλης β. the print of the sandal, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 532; ποίμναις τήνδ᾽ ἐπεμπίπτει βάσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 42. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 measured stepor movement, β. χορείας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 968, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, rhythmical or metrical movement, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 399e, “Lg.” 670d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in Rhet., rhythmical close of a sentence, [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.6, +others] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; clause forming transition from πρότασις to ἀπόδοσις, [[ [prev. author] “Inv.” 1.5 ] Refs]: and in Metric, metrical unit, monometer, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1263b35, “Metaphorical” 1087b36, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 11, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Prolegomena ad Hephaestionis Euchiridion” 3, Mar. Vict. p.47.3 K., etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 order, sequence, θέσις καὶ β. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.10U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II that with which one steps, a foot, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 92a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 750a4; ποδῶν β. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 837 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θηλύπους β. their women's feet, [[ [prev. author] “IA” 421 ] Refs]; β. δίχηλος, of the ostrich, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.28.3: _absolutely_, αἱ βάσεις 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.226, NT.Act.3.7; σφὶγξ εἶχε β. λέοντος 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 3.5.8 ] NT+1st c.BC+]; leg, [[ [prev. author] 1.3.5; βάσεων ἀποκοπαί 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 39. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]