στίχος [ῐ], ὁ,
row or file of soldiers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 11.5, 8, “Eq.Mag.” 3.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], variant for{στοιχ-} in [[ “Cyr.” 8.3.9 ] Refs]; of trees, [[ [prev. author] “Oec.” 4.21, “PFay.” 111.24 (1st c.AD) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of numbers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 104b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the cells in a honey-comb, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624a11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; course of masonry, [[ “SIG” 247 ii 72 (Delph., 4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 old name for λόχος, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.2, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 5.2, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 6.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II line of poetry, verse, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1239, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.23.42, “BGU” 1026xxii 18 (4th c.AD), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡρωϊκοὶ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 959a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν βίον ἔθηκας εἰς στίχον, i.e. have described life in one line, [[ 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Philosophus Comedy texts 28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but used of a couplet, [[ “BMus.Inscription” 1074 (from Coptos)] Refs]; defined by [[ 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” 1, cf. Scholia Heph. p.262 C. ] Refs 7th c.AD+]
__II.b line of prose, of about the same length as the average hexameter verse, i.e. , about [[ 15 or 16 syllables, used in reckoning the compass of a passage or work, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 10, 13, 19, 33, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.227, 5.656 (compare 655), 10.781, 15.9, +others, Anonymus “in Tht.” 3.32, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.585b, Men.Rh. p.434 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, “PLond.” in “Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen Beiheft” 61.88 (3rd c.AD), “PFlor.” 371.19, 23 (4th c.AD), 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 18.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rarely used in citations, κατὰ τοὺς διακοσίους σ. [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.33, compare 187, 188 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ὡς πρὸ σ᾽ στίχων τοῦ τέλους [[ Scholia 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 4p.532, compare p.534, +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]