κίων

kion

pillar

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book X 1
Chapter 4 1174a13–1175a20

1174a24
Metaphysics 1
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Book Δ 1
Chapter 23 1023a8–25

1023a19
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 59 834b31–34

834b32
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1349a11
Physics 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 4 254b7–256a3

255b25
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 4 165b23–166b27

166a10

Dictionary (LSJ)

κίων [ῑ], ονος, Hom. (not in Il.), mostly ἡ; ὁ Od. 8.66, 473, 19.38, cf. Eumel. 11, Ar. V. 105, Hdt. 4.184, etc.; ἡ Id. 1.92, Pi. P. 1.19, IG 9(2).258.12 (Cierium, ii B.C.), al.:—A. pillar, freq. in Od. of roof-pillars, 19.38, al., cf. h.Ap. 8; οἱ κ. οἱ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ Pl. Euthd. 303b, cf. SIG 969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, S. Aj. 108, Aeschin. 1.59: prov., ἔσθιʼ ἐλθὼν τοὺς Μεγακλέους κίονας eat the pillars of his hall, for, being a spendthrift, he had nothing else left to give, Ar. Nu. 815. 2. of natural objects, [Ἄτλας] ἔχει . . κίονας αὐτὸς μακράς, αἳ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχουσι Od. 1.53; [Ἄτλας] ἕστηκε κίονʼ (dual) οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς . . ἐρείδων A. Pr. 351; ὁ κ. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (of Mount Atlas) Hdt. 4.184; κίων οὐρανία, of Aetna, Pi. P. 1.19; for the Pillars of Hercules, v. Ἡράκλειος I. II. columnar gravestone, AP 7.163 (Leon.): distd.from στήλη, And. 1.38; κ. τετράπλευρος an obelisk, Epigr.Gr. 1061 (Constantinople); any column bearing an inscription, ἀγγράψαι ἐγ κίονα λιθίναν IGl.c. (cf. p.xii); ἔσται ἡ στήλη ἐπὶ τοῦ κείονος ib.22.1368.29 (ii A.D.). III. uvula, κ. ἀνεσπασμένος Hp. Epid. 1.26.εʹ, cf. Arist. HA 493a3. IV. division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose, Ruf. Onom. 37, Poll. 2.79, 80. V. kind of meteor, Placit. 3.2.5. VI. kind of wart, Hp. Nat.Mul. 65, Mul. 2.212 (where κιών, oxyt.). (Cf. Arm. siun ‘pillar’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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