μίτρα

μίτρα, Ep. and Ion. μίτρη, ἡ, a piece of armour, apparently a metal guard worn round the waist, Il. 4.137, 187,216, 5.857. 2. in later Poets, = ζώνη, maidenʼs girdle, Theoc. 27.54 [μίτρᾰν cj., μικράν codd.], Call. Aet. 3.1.45, Mosch. 2.73, etc.; μ. λῦσαι A.R. 1.288; λύσασθαι, ἀναλύεσθαι, Call. Jov. 21, Del. 222; παρθένον ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην Epigr.Gr. 319; also, = στρόφιον, τὴν μ. ἣ μαστοὺς ἐφίλησε Call. Epigr. 39, cf. A.R. 3.867, etc. 3. girdle worn by wrestlers, AP 15.44. 4. surgical bandage, Q.S. 4.213. II. headband, snood, μ. Λυδία νεανίδων . . ἄγαλμα Alcm. 23.67, cf. E. Ba. 833, Hec. 924 (lyr.), Ar. Th. 257. 2. victorʼs chaplet at the games, Pi. O. 9.84 (pl.), I. 5(4).62: metaph., Λυδία μίτρα καναχηδὰ πεποικιλμένα, of an ode in the Lydian mode, Id. N. 8.15. 3. headband as badge of rank at the Ptolemaic court, Arch.Pap. 1.220. 4. oriental head-dress, perh. a kind of turban, Hdt. 1.195, 7.90, Duris 14 J., etc.; as a mark of effeminacy, Ar. Th. 941; diadem, Call. Del. 166. 5. head-dress of the priest of Heracles at Cos, Plu. 2.304c; of the Jewish high-priest, LXXEx. 29.6, al. III. = ἐπιδιδυμίς, Hp. ap. Gal. 19.123 (where μήτρη) . [ῐ by nature, E. ll. cc., etc.; ῑ by position in Hom.]