βωμός, ὁ,
(βαίνω) raised platform, stand, for chariots, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.441 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; base of a statue, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.100: but, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 mostly, altar with a base, ἱερὸς β. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.305, etc.; πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 305; βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν ῥῦμα [prev. author] “Supp.” 84 (Lyric poetry); βωμῶν ἀπείργειν τινά [prev. author] “Ch.” 293; ἀγυιεὺς β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 370 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of suppliants, ποτὶ βωμὸν ἵζεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.334 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βωμοῖσι προσῆσθαι, προσπεσόντα βωμῷ καθῆσθαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 16, “OC” 1158; βωμὸν ἵζειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1314 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in Prose, β. ἱδρύσασθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322a; ἱζόμενοι ἐπὶ τὸν β. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108; ἐπὶ βωμῶν καθέζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 later, tomb, cairn, [[ epigram Gr. 319. ] Refs]
__4 title of poems by Dosiades and Besantinus, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 15.26and25, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 25. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__5 altar-shaped cake, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 2.1651B,C, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.76. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]