θόλος

tholos

round building with conical roof, rotunda

Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.

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Odyssey 3
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Book 22 3
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Dictionary (LSJ)

θόλος, ἡ, A. round building with conical roof, rotunda, Od. 22.442, al., cf. Hsch. 2. at Athens, the Rotunda, in which the Prytaneis, etc., dined, Pl. Ap. 32c, And. 1.45, D. 19.249, Arist. Ath. 43.3, Alexand. Com.9, Paus. 1.5.1; a similar building at Epidaurus, Id. 2.27.3; at Magnesia on Maeander, SIG 589.43 (ii B.C.). II. θόλος, ὁ, in public baths, vaulted vapour-bath, PMagd. 33.3 (iii B.C.), Asclep.Myrl. ap.Ath. 11.501d, Alciphr. 1.23, POxy. 2145.6 (ii A.D.), PMag.Osl. 1. 75. 2. bandage for the head, invented by Diocles, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.25 tit.

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