στάδιος [ᾰ], α, ον,
(ἵστημι) standing fast and firm, σ. ὑσμίνη close fight, fought hand to hand, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.314, 713, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.38 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐνὶ σταδίῃ (i.e. ὑσμίνῃ) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.241, compare 13.514; ἡ σ. μάχη 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 6.273f ] Refs 8th c.BC+], compare σταδαῖο; [πῖδαξ] σταδίη μένει, of a spring from which no water flows, [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 4.326. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__2 firm, fixed, θάλαμοι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 5.13: τὸ σ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. immobility, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.43. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 standing upright or straight, σ. χιτών,= ὀρθοστάδιον, an ungirt tunic hanging in straight plaits, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 59 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+], compare στατό; θώραξ σ. a stiff breastplate, plate-armour, opposed to στρεπτός or ἁλυσιδωτός, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1226 (see. Scholia). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II (ἵστημι A.IV) weighed, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 402 (στήδην conjecture Bentley). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]