στῦλος, ὁ
(feminine at Epidaurus, [[ “IG” 42(1).102.66, +others(4th c.BC), but also _masculine_ there, [prev. work]109iii92 (3rd c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+], pillar (={κίων} accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.544)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], especially as a support or bearing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.169, “IG” [same places]; στέγης 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 898; δόμων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 50; σ. μονόλιθοι “BGU” 1713 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, σ... οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 57, cf. NT.Gal.2.9, NT.1Tim.3.15. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 σ. πυρός [[ LXX.Exo.13.21, NT.Rev.10.1. ] LXX+NT]
__3 wooden pole, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 203, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.22.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [σκηνῆς] tent-poles, uprights, opposed to διατόναια, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 353.9 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; plank, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 47. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 stile for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East accusative to [[ 3rd c.BC: Herophilus Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “Anatomy texts Ad” xiv (Arabic version, ii p.183 ed. M. Simon, Leipzig 1906)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; compare στυλοειδής.