A.stepping, step, and collectively, steps, A. Eu.36, S.Aj.8, etc.: metaph., “ἡσύχῳ φρενῶν βάσει” A.Ch.452 (lyr.); “οὐκ ἔχων β.” power to step, S.Ph.691 (lyr.); τροχῶν βάσεις the rolling of the wheels, the rolling wheels, Id.El.718; ἀρβύλης β. the print of the sandal, E.El.532; “ποίμναις τήνδ᾽ ἐπεμπίπτει βάσιν” S.Aj.42.
2. measured stepor movement, “β. χορείας” Ar.Th.968, cf. Pi.P.1.2: hence, rhythmical or metrical movement, Pl.R.399e, Lg.670d: in Rhet., rhythmical close of a sentence, Hermog.Id.1.6, al.; clause forming transition from πρότασις to ἀπόδοσις, Id.Inv.1.5: and in Metric, metrical unit, monometer, Arist.Pol.1263b35, Metaph.1087b36, Heph.11, Longin.Proll.Heph.3, Mar. Vict.p.47.3 K., etc.
II. that with which one steps, a foot, Pl.Ti.92a, Arist.GA750a4; “ποδῶν β.” E.Hec.837; θηλύπους β. their women's feet, Id.IA421; β. δίχηλος, of the ostrich, D.S.3.28.3: abs., “αἱ βάσεις” Ph.1.226, Act.Ap.3.7; “σφὶγξ εἶχε β. λέοντος” Apollod.3.5.8; leg, Id.1.3.5; “βάσεων ἀποκοπαί” Diog.Oen.39.
III. that whereon one stands, base, pedestal, [κρατῆρος] Alex.119; of statues, OGI705.6, etc.; “τρία ἔργα . . ἐπὶ μιᾶς β.” Str.14.1.14, cf. Luc.Philops. 19; “λεβήτων” Plb.5.88.5; of an engine, Hero Bel.88.1, al.; of a column, PLond.3.755v6 (iv A. D.): Medic., “τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου” Herophil. ap. Placit.4.5.4, cf. Plu.Per.6; “τραχήλου” Id.Pyrrh.34; “κοῖλαι βλεφάρων ἰοτυπεῖς βάσιες” AP5.86 (Rufin.); “αἱ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς β.” Sor. 1.27, cf. Archig. ap. Aët. 16.101(91); of the heart, Gal.UP6.13; “ἐπανόρθωσις τὴν τοῦ κενουμένου βάσιν ἀναπληροῦσα” Id.1.474; foundation, basement, “ῥίζα πάντων καὶ β. ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται” Ti.Locr.97e; so, of the soil, “πεδίων σπορίμα β.” Hymn.Is.162.
