μίτρα,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect μίτρη, ἡ, a piece of armour, apparently a metal guard worn round the waist, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.137, 187, 216, 5.857 ] Refs 8th c.BC+].
__2 in later Poets, ={ζώνη}, maiden's girdle, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.54 [μίτρᾰν conjecture, μικράν codices], 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.45, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.73, etc.; μ. λῦσαι 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.288 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; λύσασθαι, ἀναλύεσθαι, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 21, “Del.” 222; παρθένον ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην “epigram Gr.” 319 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also, ={στρόφιον, τὴν μ. ἣ μαστοὺς ἐφίλησε} [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 39, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.867, etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 girdle worn by wrestlers, [[ Anthologia Graeca 15.44. ] Refs]
__4 surgical bandage, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.213. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II headband, snood, μ. Λυδία νεανίδων.. ἄγαλμα [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 23.67, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 833, “Hec.” 924 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 257. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__II.2 victor's chaplet at the games, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.84 (_plural_), “I.” 5(4).62: _metaphorically_, Λυδία μίτρα καναχηδὰ πεποικιλμένα] Refs 5th c.BC+], of an ode in the Lydian mode, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 8.15. ] Refs]