Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἕδος

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2. seat, abode, dwelling-place, esp. of the gods, “ἐς Ὄλυμπον . . ἵν᾽ ἀθανάτων ἕ. ἐστί” Il.5.360; ἵκοντο θεῶν ἕ. αἰπὺν Ὄλυμπον ib.367, cf. Theoc.7.116; periphr., ἕ. Οὐλύμποιο, = Ὄλυμπος, Il.24.144, cf. Pi.O.2.12; of the abodes of men, “Θήβης ἕ.” Il.4.406; “Ἰθάκης ἕ.” Od.13.344; ἕ. Μάκαρος the abode of Macar, Il.24.544: periphr., “Τροίας ἕ.” B.8.46; ἔποικον ἕ., = ἐποικίαι, A.Pr.412.

3. seated statue of a god, S.OT886 (lyr.), El.1374, IG 2.754, al., Isoc.15.2, X.HG1.4.12, Porph.Abst.2.18, Polem.Hist.90, Plu.Per.13, Paus.8.46.2; τὰ ἕ. τῶν θεῶν, i.e. the Lat. Penates, D.H. 1.47; also of a man worshipped as a hero, IG14.2133; “τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἕδη καὶ τοὺς νεώς” Isoc.4.155; “τοὺς νεὼς καὶ τὰ ἕδη καὶ τὰ τεμένη” Lycurg.143; θεῶν ἕδη (v.l. ἄλση）“ καὶ ἱερά” Pl.Phd.111b, cf. Tim.Lex. ἕδος: τὸ ἄγαλμα, καὶ ὁ τόπος ἐν ᾧἵδρυται, but this latter use is doubtful in early Prose; later, temple, Ph.2.314; “ἕ. ὑπαίθριον” D.C.51.1.

4. foundation, base, Hes.Th.117, Epigr. ap. Vitr.8.3.23.

II. act of sitting, οὐχ ἕδος ἐστί 'tis no time to sit idle, Il.11.648, 23.205; cf. “ἕδρα” 11. (Cf. Skt. sádas 'seat'.)

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (25):
- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 412
- Bacchylides, Epinicians, 8.46
- Hesiod, Theogony, 117
- Homer, Iliad, 11.648
- Homer, Iliad, 23.205
- Homer, Iliad, 24.144
- Homer, Iliad, 24.544
- Homer, Iliad, 4.406
- Homer, Iliad, 9.194
- Homer, Iliad, 1.534
- Homer, Iliad, 5.360
- Homer, Odyssey, 13.344
- Isocrates, Antidosis, 2
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 155
- Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 143
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.46.2
- Plato, Phaedo, 111b
- Sophocles, Electra, 1374
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 886
- Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.4.12
- Homer, Iliad, 11
- Hippocrates, De articulis, 7
- Plutarch, Pericles, 13
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.47
- Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 51.1

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