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κᾰνών, όνος, ὁ,
straight rod, bar, especially to keep a thing straight:
__1 in plural, staves which preserved the shape of the shield, [ἀσπίδα] δύω κανόνεσσ᾽ ἀραρυῖαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.407, compare 8.193, 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 21.257a. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 weaver's rod, to which alternate threads of the warp were attached, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.761, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 822 (_anapaest meter_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.156b, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 37.631. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 ruddled line used by masons or carpenters, πύργους.. ὀρθοῖσιν ἔθεμεν κανόσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 6; βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι.. ἡρμοσμένα [prev. author] “HF” 945; also κ. λίθινος ] Refs 5th c.BC+]rule, straight-edge, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.313.113, 373.217, +others, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 56b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.2, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.120 (from Callicter)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε τέκτονος παρὰ στάθμην ἰόντος ὀρθοῦται κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 474.5; κανόνα προσφέρειν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.199; ποιῶν ὀρθὰ πάντα πρὸς κανόνα “IG” 7.3073.108 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κανόνεσσι.. μετρήσασθαι [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.724, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1004 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μολίβδινος κ., i.e. a flexible rule that cannot be depended on for straight measurement, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137b31 (unless ={κῦμα}); κανόνα ποιῆσαι στρεβλόν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1354a26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __3.b ruler, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.63.2 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__3.c metaphorically, κανόνες καὶ πήχεις ἐπῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 799; λαμπρὰ μὲν ἀκτὶς ἡλίου, κ. σαφής 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 650. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 beam or tongue of the balance, στῆσαι ἐκ κανόνος [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 11.334, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 811. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 curtain-rod, [[ 4th c.BC: Chares Historicus “fragment” 4J. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__6 in plural, reeds of a wind-organ, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.365 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator Imp.). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__7 bed-post, [[ LXX.Jdt.13.6. ] LXX]
__8 in plural, poles from which the ancilia were suspended when carried, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.71. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__9 plural, bars of a window, [[ “PSI” 5.547.9 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__10 in Music, monochord, κατατομὴ κανόνος, title of work by [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.100K., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 1.8, 2.12; ὀκτάχορδος, πεντεκαιδεκάχορδος κ., [prev. work] 2.2, 3.1 at Title Page ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__11 cross-bar of κιθάρα, [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]inHarm.p.207.
__II metaphorically, rule, standard, κανόνι τοῦ καλοῦ μαθών [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 602; γνώμης πονηροῖς κανόσιν ἀναμετρούμενος τὸ σῶφρον [prev. author] “El.” 52; κανόνα προσάγειν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the law, [[ 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ σπουδαῖος.. ὥσπερ κ. καὶ μέτρον αὐτῶν (i.e. καλῶν καὶ ἡδέων) ὤν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a33, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.4.5; τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν᾽ ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖς προτέροις Ἕλλησιν ὅροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.296; ὡς κανόνι τῷ πάθει πᾶν ἀγαθὸν κρίνοντες 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.63U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ Ἐπικούρου κ. his treatise on Logic, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 34, 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.15 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ τῆς φιλοσοφίας κ. [[ LXX.4Mac.7.21: Κανόνες, οἱ ] LXX], title of treatise by Democritus; of a philosophic principle, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 312. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II.2 in Art, model, standard, ὁ κ., a statue by Polyclitus which furnished a model of proportions, [[ 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 34.55 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also his treatise on the same, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.122 (adnot.)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also in Literature, Ἡρόδοτος τῆς Ἰάδος ἄριστος κ., Θουκυδίδης δὲ τῆς Ἀτθίδος [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.2.c of a person, severe critic, κ. scriptorum, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 16.17.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.3 Grammars, general rule, [[ AB 1180, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus ] Refs 4th c.AD+]inTheod.2 p.xxi; paradigm, οἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 141.25. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3.b metrical scheme showing all possible forms of a verse, [[ 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 14.1, +others ] Refs 7th c.AD+]
__II.4 in Astronomy and Chronology, table of dates, κανόνες Χρονικοί [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 27 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; singular, κανών, ὁ, system of chronology, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.74. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.4.b astrological table, κανόνων καὶ εἰσόδων πήξεις [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 108.19. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.5 limit, boundary, explanation as τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πηδήματος, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.151. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.5.b 'province', sphere of action, [[ NT.2Cor.10.15. ] NT]
__II.6 assessment for taxation, [[ “PLond.” 1.99.5 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+], etc.; οἱ δεσποτικοὶ κ. the Imperial taxes, [[[prev. work] 234.9 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἰδιωτικὸς κ. [[ “POxy.” 2124.10 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II.7 tariff, [[ Stud.Pal. 20.143.5 (5th-6th c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
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