ζωστήρ
zoster
a warriorʼs belt
Appears 17 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ζωστήρ, ῆρος, ὁ, (ζώννυμι) in Il. always A. a warriorʼs belt, prob. of leather covered with metal plates, ὅθι ζωστῆρος ὀχῆες χρύσειοι σύνεχον 4.132; δαιδάλεος, παναίολος, ib.135,186; φοίνικι φαεινός 7.305, cf. 9.74, Aj. 1030; of an Amazon, Fr. 172: in Od., a swineherdʼs belt, 14.72, cf. 7.18,26.17. II. later,= ζώνη, a womanʼs girdle, 1.31.1: metaph., of the encircling sea, νῆσοι . . , ἃς . . ζ. Αἰγαίου κύματος ἐντὸς ἔχει AP 9.421 (Antip. Thess.); ὠκεανὸς ἀτλαντικὸς ζ. Sent. 2. III. anything that goes round like a girdle: 1. stripe marking certain height in the ship, 1.1. 2. grass-wrack, Posidonia oceanica, HP 4.6.2, HN 13.135. 3. = ζώνη III.4, ib.26.121. IV. name of a cape on the west coast of Attica, 8.107, Fr. 67, etc. 2. epith. of Apollo at Zoster, AB 261(sed leg. Ζωστήριος). V. ζωστῆρες Ἐνυοῦς, of warriors, Ap. 85. VI. name of a πηγή in the Chaldaean system, Pr. 96.
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