στοιβ-ή, ἡ,
(στείβω) thorny burnet, Poterium spinosum, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.186, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.1.3, LXX.Isa.55.13, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.12; its branches were used to make brooms, τὴν στέγην ὀφέλλοντα.. πυθμένι στοιβῆς 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 51 ] LXX+6th c.BC+]; also to pack wine-jars, [[ 1st c.BC: Trypho Grammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 247.27. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 cushion, pad, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 654b26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 padding, [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus “fragment uncertain” 132 M. (om. Kock, see “fragment” 409 K.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθάπερ σ. like stuffing, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 7.2, 8, compare 12.3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically, 'padding', an expletive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1178, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.40 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 foundation-course below stylobate, [[ “IG” 42(1).102.3, +others (Epid., 4th c.BC), 5(2).33 (Tegea, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 heap of corn, [[ LXX.Ruth.3.7 ] LXX]; sheaf, shock of corn,[[LXX.Judg.15.5 ] LXX] codex A (στυβ-).