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ἕδρ-α , Ep. and Ion. ἕδρη , ἡ: (ἕδος):
I. sitting-place:
1. seat, chair, stool, bench, Il.19.77, Od.3.7; “ἀγοραί τε καὶ ἕδραι” 8.16, cf. 3.31; seat of honour, “περὶ μέν σε τίον . . ἕδρῃ τε κρέασίν τε” Il.8.162, 12.311; “ἕδραις γεραίρειν τινά” X.Cyr.8.1.39; “τιμίαν ἕ. ἔχειν” A.Eu.855; throne, “ἐκβαλεῖν ἕδρας Κρόνον” Id.Pr.203; θακεῖν παγκρατεῖς ἕ. to sit on an almighty throne, ib.391, cf. Pers.466.
2. seat, abode, freq. in pl., Pi.O.7.76, P.11.63, etc.; esp. of the gods, sanctuary, temple, Id.I.7(6).44, A.Ag.596, etc.; also νέοικος ἕ. station for ships, Pi.O.5.8; “ναύλοχοι ἕδραι” S.Aj.460: periphr., “ἕδραισι Θεράπνας” Pi.P.11.63; “Παρνησοῦ ἕδραι” A.Eu.11, cf. E.Tr.557 (lyr.); βλεφάρων ἕ. the eye, Id.Rh. 8 (anap.); ὄμματος ἕ. ib.554 (lyr.).
3. seat or place of anything, ἐξ ἕδρας out of its right place, Id.Ba.928, cf. Plu.Fab.3; “καταναγκάσαι ἐς ἕδρην” Hp.Mochl.38; “ὁ ἥλιος ἐκλιπὼν τὴν ἕ.” Hdt.7.37; τὴν τοῦ ἥπατος ἕ., σπλάγχνου, etc., Pl.Ti.67b, 72c, etc.; ἐκ τῆς ἕ. ὠθεῖν ib.79b; ἔχειν ἕδραν to keep its place, Arist.Mete.356a4; “μεταθέσεις ἐξ ἕδρας ἀτόμων” Epicur.Fr.61; ἕδραν στρέφειν to wriggle, Thphr.Char.27.14; “στοὰν εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἕ. ἐπαναγαγεῖν” D.C.57.21; base, Plu.Demetr.21: metaph. in Rhet., D.H.Dem.31, etc.; of a plant, Gp.5.9.9.
4. ἡ ἕ. τοῦ ἵππου the back of the horse, on which the rider sits, X.Eq.5.5, 12.9, Eq. Mag.4.1.
5. in pl., quarters of the sky in which omens appear, A.Ag.118 (lyr.), E.HF596.
6. seat of a physiological process, “ἕ. ἀναθρέψεως” Gal.18(2).105.
II. sitting, esp. of suppliants, “ἕδραν ἔχειν προστρόπαιον” A.Eu.41, cf. S.OT13, OC112.
2. sitting still, Hp.Aër.20: hence, inactivity, delay, “περιημέκτεε τῇ ἕδρῃ” Hdt.9.41; “ἀχθομένων τῇ ἕ.” Th.5.7; “οὐχ ἕδρας ἀκμή” S.Aj.811; “οὐχ ἕδρας ἀγών” E.Or.1291; “οὐχ ἕδρας ἔργον” B.Fr.11; also οἰκίης ἕδρῃ sitting at home, Herod.4.92.
3. position, γονυπετεῖς ἕδραι kneeling, E.Ph.293 (lyr.); βέλεος ἕδρη place occupied by a weapon which fixes itself in the skull, Hp.VC7.
4. sitting, session of a council, etc., εὐθὺς ἐξ ἕδρας when he rose from the sitting, S.Aj.780 (but ἐξ ἕδρας ἀνίσταται ib.788, means from quietude); ἕδραν ποιεῖν to hold a sitting, And.1.111, cf.IG12.110.41.
III. seat, breech, fundament, Hdt.2.87, Hp. Aph.5.22, Ar.Th.133, etc.; of birds and animals, rump, Arist.HA 633b8, Simon Eq.9, etc.
IV. Geom., face of a regular solid, Theol.Ar.37.
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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