στρῶμα

stroma

anything spread

Appears 4 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Alcibiades I 1
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128a13
Gorgias 1
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517d4
Protagoras 1
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315d5
Statesman 1
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280b8

Dictionary (LSJ)

στρῶμα, ατος, τό, (στρώννυμι) A. anything spread or laid out for lying or sitting upon, mattress, bed, ἀσπάλαθοι δὲ τάπησιν ὁμοῖον στρῶμα θανόντι Thgn. 1193, cf. PEleph. 5.5 (iii B.C.), etc.; used on the funeral bier, IG 12(5).593.3 (Ceos, v B.C.), Schwyzer 323 C 29 (Delph., iv B.C.): pl., bedclothes, coverings of a dinner-couch, Ar. Ach. 1090, Nu. 37, 1069, al.; of a birdʼs nest, Arist. HA 616a2; σ. πορφυρόβαπτα Pl. Com.208; coupled with ἱμάτια, ἔπιπλα, Lys. 32.16; αἴρεσθαι τὰ σ. Ar. Ra. 596 (lyr.); σ. ὑποσπᾶν to pull the bed from under one, D. 24.197: cf. στρωματεύς 1. 2. horsecloth, horse-trappings, X. Cyr. 8.8.19, Antiph. 109, cf. Poll. 1.183; trappings of an ass, Luc. Asin. 38. II. pavement, IG 12.313.71, 22.1666B37, 7.4255.6 (Oropus, iv B.C.), Inscr.Délos 502 A 24 (iii B.C.), IG 12(8).380 (Thasos), etc.

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