κίων

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’.)