θρόνος, ὁ,
seat, chair, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.145, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.192e, “PMasp.” 6 ii 63 (6th c.AD), etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 throne, chair of state, θ. βασιλήϊος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.5.3, etc.; Ζηνὸς ἐπὶ θρόνον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.93: _metaphorically_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 553c: _plural_, ἐν θρόνοις ἥμενοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 975; ἐκ τυραννίδος θρόνων τ᾽ ἄϊστον ἐκβαλεῖν [prev. author] “Pr.” 910; Διὸς θρόνοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1041, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1732 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; king's estate or dignity, σκῆπτρα καὶ θρόνους [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 425, compare 448; [γῆς] κράτη τε καὶ θρόνους νέμω [prev. author] “OT” 237, compare “Ant.” 166, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in the Prytaneum, τῷ [Ἀπόλλωνι] θ. ἐξελεῖν [[ “IG” 12.78. ] Refs]
__3 oracular seat of Apollo, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1254, 1282 (both Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μαντικοὶ θ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 616, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 chair of a teacher, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315c, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.2, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 819, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.174 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 judge's bench, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.807b, 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 10.9, 13.16. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]