ταινία, ἡ,
band, fillet, especially headband, worn in sign of victory, θήσω δὲ νικητήριον τρεῖς ταινίας [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 3, compare 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 112.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 212e, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.20.19, etc.; ταινίας πωλεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, the breastband of young girls, etc., [[ “Anacreontea” 22.13, compare 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.39.8, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.65 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; abdominal band, [[ Diocl.fragment 142 ] Refs]; bandage, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 50 (_plural_), “IG” 42(1).121.49,61 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 25, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ribbon, distinguished from λημνίσκος, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 696 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 strip in fur, [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.322. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__3 pennon of a ship, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 74.8, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.90 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of a spear, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.52.] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__4 ={ταινίδιον} 111 or IV, τ. χρυσῆ, ἐφ᾽ ἧς ἐπιγραφὴ Βασίλισσα Στρατονίκη.. “Inscription Délos” 442 B 33 (2nd c.BC); τ. περιηργυρωμένη [prev. work] 29.
__II strip or tongue of land, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.31, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Αιβυκή” 121, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 26 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; sandbank, [[ PTeb. 5.30, “PStrassb.” 85.20 (both 2nd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.41.1, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.3.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]