ἱστός, ὁ,
(ἵστημι) anything set upright:
__I mast, ἱστὸν.. στῆσαν ἀείραντες they stepped the mast, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.289, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.852, etc.; ἱστοὺς στησάμενοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.77. compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.480; ἱστὸν αἴρεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to καθαιρεῖν, κὰδ δ᾽ ἕλον ἱστόν took it down, unstepped it, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.496; κεραία καὶ ἱ. “IG” 22.657.14 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: generally, rod, pole, ἱστὸς χάλκεος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.122 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; beam, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1672.306 (_plural_). ] Refs]
__II beam of a loom, which stood upright, instead of lying horizontal as in our looms; πόσσω κατέβα τοι ἀφ᾽ ἱστ; (i.e. τὸ ἐμπερόναμα) [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.35 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; later ἱ. ὄρθιος (opposed to the horizontal loom), [[ 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 3.36 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, loom, ἱστόν τ᾽ ἠλακάτην τε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.491, “Schwyzer” 180 (from Crete)] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; ἱ. στήσασθαι to set up the beam and so begin a web, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 779 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἱ. ἐποίχεσθαι to traverse the loom, because the weaver was obliged to walk to and fro, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.31, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.62. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 warp fixed to the beam: hence, the web itself, ἱστὸν ὕφαινε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.125, etc.; ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκεν μέγαν ἱ., νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.104; ἱ. μεταχειρίζεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 84a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁ ἐκτετμημένος ἱ. the web cut from the loom and finished, opposed to ὁ πρὸς ἐκτομήν, Artem.[same place]; web of a certain size, piece, [[ PHib. 1.67.12 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.; ὀθονίων ἱ. τπρισχίλιοι [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.89.2; τρεῖς ἱ. καθελεῖν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.20. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]