μάνδρα, ἡ,
enclosed space,
__1 for cattle, fold, byre, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 106, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.61, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.648a; for horses, μάνδραις ἐν ἱππείαισιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 659.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in reference to the bezel in which the stone of a ring, with a design of oxen, is set, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epigrammata - PLG” 21, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.746 (from Polemo), compare 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 uncertain meaning in [[ “POxy.” 984 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 square on a draught-board, [[ 1st c.AD: Martialis Epigrammaticus Latinus 7.72.8 (_plural_). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]