ἱστός
histos
anything set upright
Appears 46 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἱστός, ὁ, (ἵστημι) A. anything set upright: I. mast, ἱστὸν . . στῆσαν ἀείραντες they stepped the mast, Od. 15.289, cf. Il. 23.852, etc.; ἱστοὺς στησάμενοι Od. 9.77. cf. Il. 1.480; ἱστὸν αἴρεσθαι HG 6.2.29; opp. καθαιρεῖν, κὰδ δʼ ἕλον ἱστόν took it down, unstepped it, Od. 15.496; κεραία καὶ ἱ. IG 22.657.14: generally, rod, pole, ἱστὸς χάλκεος 8.122; beam, 22.1672.306 (pl.). II. beam of a loom, which stood upright, instead of lying horizontal as in our looms; πόσσω κατέβα τοι ἀφʼ ἱστῶ; (sc. τὸ ἐμπερόναμα) 15.35; later ἱ. ὄρθιος (opp. the horizontal loom), 3.36: generally, loom, ἱστόν τʼ ἠλακάτην τε Il. 6.491, Schwyzer 180 (Crete), etc.; ἱ. στήσασθαι to set up the beam and so begin a web, Op. 779; ἱ. ἐποίχεσθαι to traverse the loom, because the weaver was obliged to walk to and fro, Il. 1.31, Od. 5.62. 2. warp fixed to the beam: hence, the web itself, ἱστὸν ὕφαινε Il. 3.125, etc.; ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκεν μέγαν ἱ., νύκτας δʼ ἀλλύεσκεν Od. 2.104; ἱ. μεταχειρίζεσθαι Phd. 84a; ὁ ἐκτετμημένος ἱ. the web cut from the loom and finished, opp. ὁ πρὸς ἐκτομήν, Artem.l.c.; web of a certain size, piece, 1.67.12 (iii B.C.), etc.; ὀθονίων ἱ. τπρισχίλιοι 5.89.2; τρεῖς ἱ. καθελεῖν 8.6.20. 3. ἱ. ἀραχνᾶν spiders’ webs, 3.7. 4. comb of bees, HA 624a5. III. shinbone, leg, C. 1.408. IV. a constellation, 3.164.
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