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θρόνος

θρόνος, a seat, chair

θρόνος, ὁ,
  • seat, chair, Od. 1.145, Ath. 5.192e, PMasp. 6 ii 63 (vi A.D.), etc.
      • 2 throne, chair of state, θ. βασιλήϊος Hdt. 1.14, cf. X. HG 1.5.3, etc.; Ζηνὸς ἐπὶ θρόνον Theoc. 7.93: metaph., Pl. R. 553c: pl., ἐν θρόνοις ἥμενοι A. Ch. 975; ἐκ τυραννίδος θρόνων τʼ ἄϊστον ἐκβαλεῖν Id. Pr. 910; Διὸς θρόνοι S. Ant. 1041, cf. Ar. Av. 1732; kingʼs estate or dignity, σκῆπτρα καὶ θρόνους S. OC 425, cf. 448; [γῆς] κράτη τε καὶ θρόνους νέμω Id. OT 237, cf. Ant. 166, etc.; in the Prytaneum, τῷ [Ἀπόλλωνι] θ. ἐξελεῖν IG 1(2).78.
      • 3 oracular seat of Apollo, E. IT 1254, 1282 (both lyr.); μαντικοὶ θ. A. Eu. 616, etc.
      • 4 chair of a teacher, Pl. Prt. 315c, Philostr. VS 2.2, Lib. Ep. 819, AP 9.174 (Pall.).
      • 5 judgeʼs bench, Plu. Praec. 2.807b, Him. Ecl. 10.9, 13.16.
      • 6 Astrol.,= ὕψωμα, PMich. in Class.Phil. 22.22 (pl.).
        • b favourable combination of planetary positions, Ptol. Tetr. 51.
    • II a kind of bread, Neanth. 1 J.
    • III name of a lozenge, Paul.Aeg. 3.42, 7.12.

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