A.“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, IG9(2).258.12 (Cierium, ii B.C.), al.:—pillar, freq. in Od. of roof-pillars, 19.38, al., cf. h.Ap.8; “οἱ κ. οἱ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ” Pl.Euthd.303b, cf. SIG969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, S.Aj.108, Aeschin. 1.59: prov., ἔσθι᾽ 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 κίον' (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 1.
II. columnar gravestone, AP7.163 (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.).
IV. division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose, Ruf.Onom.37, Poll.2.79, 80.
V. kind of meteor, Placit.3.2.5.