στήλη,
Doric dialect στάλα, Aeolic dialect στάλλα (which see), ἡ, block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall, στήλας τε προβλῆτας ἐμόχλεον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.259 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; block of rock-crystal, in which the Ethiopian mummies were cased, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, block or base, κόρη χρυσῆ ἐπὶ στήλης [[ “IG” 12.256.5; μεταξὺ τοῦ κίονος καὶ τῆς σ. ἐφ᾽ ᾗ ἐστιν ὁ στρατηγὸς ὁ χαλκοῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.38, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ξύλιναι, λέβητε ἀπὸ στηλῶν, [[ “IG” 12.314.130,133. ] Refs]
__II block or slab used as a memorial, monument:
__II.1 gravestone, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.371, 16.457, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.14, 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 15, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 183; ὥς τε σ. μένει ἔμπεδον, ἥ τ᾽ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ ἑστήκῃ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.434; ὥς τε στήλην ἀτρέμας ἑσταότα 13.437; στῆλαι ἀπὸ σημάτων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93; οὐ στηλῶν μόνον.. ἐπιγραφή [prev. author] 2.43; μήτε στήλαις μήτε ὀνόμασι δηλοῦντας τοὺς τάφους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 873d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; στάλαν θέμεν Παρίου λίθου λευκοτέραν (metaphorically of a poet) [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 monument inscribed with record of victories, dedications, votes of thanks, treaties, laws, decrees, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.102, 106, 4.87, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 727, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.56 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στήλη λιθίνη, χαλκῆ,[[ [prev. work] 47, “IG” 12.13.18] Refs]; τί βεβούλευται περὶ τῶν σπονδῶν ἐν τῇ σ. παραγράψα; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 513 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς θυσίας τὰς ἐκ τῶν κύρβεων καὶ τῶν σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.96, 3.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν στήλῃ ἀναγραφῆναι, whether for honour, as in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; or for infamy, as in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.51, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.41, etc. (compare στηλίτης, στηλιτεύω)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also the record itself, contract, agreement, στήλας ἀναγράψαι [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν σ. according to the agreement, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1051; σ. αἱ πρὸς Θηβαίους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 16.27; μάτην ἐν ταῖς σ. ἐστίν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.176; τῆς σ. τὰ ἀντίγραφα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.127 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παραβῆναι τὰς σ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.8.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]