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στάσις [ᾰ], εως, ἡ,
(ἵστημι) placing, setting, (i.e. δικτύων) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.8, 9.16; τῶν κλιμάκων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.60.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; erection of a statue, εἰκόνος [[ “IG” 7.411.34 (Oropus, 2nd c.BC); στήλης [prev. work]22.654.59 (3rd c.BC), 11(4).1023 (Delos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 standing stone, pillar, [[ LXX.Judg.9.6. ] LXX]
__3 erection, building, [[ PPetr. 3p.139 (3rd c.BC, _plural_)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ={ἐργαστήριον}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; so perhaps in “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II (ἵστημι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV)] Refs 4th c.BC+] weighing, αὕτη 'στὶ λοιπὴ σφῷν στάσις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1401; βολίμου “SIG” 241 A 28 (Delph., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στάσις μισθοῦ the paying of the doctor's fee, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 4; ἀπὸ τᾶν κοινᾶν ποθόδων.. ἐπιλυθῆμεν τοὺς ἐρρυτιασμένους στάσι “IG” 42(1).77.13 (Troezen, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B (ἵσταμαι) standing, stature, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 36 (marginalM βάσιν)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; standing still, stationariness, defined as ἀπόφασις τοῦ ἰέναι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 426d; opposed to φορά, κίνησις, [prev. work] 437a, 438c, “Sph.” 250a, 251d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1025b21, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rest, as a category of the intelligible, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.8 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; opposed to ἠρεμία, [[ [prev. author] 6.3.27 ] Refs]; ὀμμάτων στάσιες fixed stare, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ὤτων pricking of the ears, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.61 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; σ. τῆς γαστρός constipation, [[ 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus (?) 13.6 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; [τοῦ αἵματος] sluggishness, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ ἀέρος,= νηνεμία, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 18, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.908. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __B.2 the place in which one stands or should stand, position, posture, station, ἔχοντες σ. ταύτην ἐς τὴν ἔστημεν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέβης.. φυλάσσων τὴν ὑπὲρ πυρὸς σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἰδέσθαι.., τίν᾽ ἔχει σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 308 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 954; τὴν Ἰνοῦς σ. ἑστάναι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 925 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς αὐτῆς ἠξιοῦτο σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.272 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. ἵππων,= ἱππόστασις, σταθμός, stable, stall, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 442; ὄνων ἵππων τε στάσεις 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 18; τῆς σ. παρασύρων.. τὰς δρῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 527 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν σ. δὴ στάντες standing each in his place, [[ 4th c.BC: Antidotus Comicus 2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of military formation, κατάπυκνος σ. close order, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 5.1] Refs 1st c.BC+]; row, ἀμπέλων [[ “Tab.Heracl.” 2.77, +others, compare “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC, unless in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.3). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.2.b position in relation to the compass, ἡ σ. ἤλλακτο τῶν ὡρέων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.26; ἡ σ. τοῦ νότου καὶ τῆς μεσαμβρίης [prev. passage];] Refs 5th c.BC+] setting of a wind from a quarter, τῶν ἐτησίων ἤδη στάσιν ἐχόντων having set in, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.5.3 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; γίνεταί τις ἀνέμου σ. [[ [prev. author] 1.48.2, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b33, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 35 (_plural_); see below 111.4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.2.c of planetary connexion, [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 38.17. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.2.d metaphorically, from a boxer's position, ὥσπερ.. ὁρᾶτε τοὺς πύκτας περὶ τῆς σ. ἀλλήλοις διαγωνιζομένους, οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς.. ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως περὶ τῆς σ. (τάξεως codices, but[[compare 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 3.6.3) αὐτῷ μάχεσθε 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.206 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence, position taken up by a litigant (especially defendant), [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Topica” 25.93; ἐπ᾽ ἀδίκου σ. ἱστάμενος “PRein.” 18.16 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; issue, σ. ὁρική, νομική, λογική, etc., [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 2, compare 5th c.AD: Syrianus Philosophus et Rhetor “in Hermogenem commentaria” 2.55 R. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.2.e position, opinion of a philosopher, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 4, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.48, 3.33, 37, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Marcellinus Medicus “de Pulsibus - Festschrift zur 49. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner” 234. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.3 position, state, condition of a person, ἐν τῇ καλλίονι στάσει εἶναι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of moral, social, political position, μειρακιώδης [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.33.6; ἰδιώτου 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 48; φιλοσόφου 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.15.13; σ. ἔχειν ἐν τῷ βίῳ [prev. work] 1.21.1 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; state of affairs, [[ Ostr. 1151.3 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἡ σ. τῆς νόσου [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερέων” 10, compare “Mochl.” 21 (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.4 στάσις μελῶν, explained by [[ Scholia as ={στάσιμον} (which see), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1281. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II party, company, band, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1117 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 114, 458 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 311 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III especially party formed for seditious purposes, faction, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.59, 60; ἐπεκράτησε τῇ στάσι [prev. work] 173 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; αἱ τῶν Μεγαρέων σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.71. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.2 faction, sedition, discord, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 781, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.19, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 245, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65; οἴκων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.13, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.28, +others; σ. ἀντιάνειρα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.16 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; σκεπτομένων πόθεν ἡ σ. how the row began, [[ Batrachomyomachia 135 ] Refs]; στάσις ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ὠροθύνετο a contest, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 202; ὅστις.. στάσιν ποιέοι περὶ γαδαισίας “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς λόγου στάσιν ἐπελθών [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1180; σ. γλώσσης [prev. author] “OT” 634; στάσει νοσοῦσα πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 34; τὰς σ. ἐποιοῦντο πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.79; στάσεις παύω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.6.14; καταλύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 359; πόλιν εἰς στάσιν ἐμβάλλειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.11; τὴν πόλιν εἰς στάσεις κατέστησαν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.26; κατὰ στάσιν ἀποκτείνειν [prev. author] 30.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πόλεμος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 470b, compare “Phd.” 66c, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus [same place]; στάσεις καὶ διαστάσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a8. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__B.III.3 division, dissent, στάσιν ἐνέσεσθαι τῇ γνώμῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σ. there's no disputing it, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 738 (troch.). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.4 metaphorically, τὰν ἀνέμων σ. [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18 (unless in signification 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.2b); ἀνέμων πνεύματα.. στάσιν ἀντίπνουν ἀποδεικνύμενα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1087 (_anapaest meter_); σ. κυμάτων Ach. Tat. 3.2. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__B.IV στάσεις,= τὰ πεφυκότα σπέρματα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 859. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.V statute, decree, [[ LXX.Dan.6.7(8), LXX.1Mac.7.18. ] LXX]
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