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ἴκρια , τά (sg. v. infr. 111; for the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.357),
A.halfdeck at the stern of a ship, “νηῶν ἴκρι᾽ ἐπῴχετο μακρὰ βιβάσθων” Il.15.676; [“κυβερνήτης] κάππεσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἰκριόφιν” Od.12.414; εἰς ἴκρια νηὸς ἔβαινον πρῴρης (i.e. from the prow) ib.229; “νηὸς ἐπ᾽ ἰκριόφιν καταλέξεται” 3.353; “εὐπάκτων ἐπ᾽ ἰκρίων σταθεὶς ὄρουσε” B.16.83: wrongly expld. by Eust. as = ἐγκοίλια in Od.5.252, but perh. so used by Nonn. D.40.447,452; expld. as = κεραία in A.R.1.566 by Sch., but prob. wrongly, cf. Lyc.751.
II. generally, platform, stage, “ἴκρια ἐπὶ σταυρῶν ὑψηλῶν . . ἕστηκε” Hdt.5.16, cf. Str.12.3.18, Hsch.
2. scaffolding, IG12.94.28 (prob. in 374.151), 4.39 (Aegina, v B.C.), BCH6.27(Delos, ii B.C.).
3. benches in a theatre, Cratin.323, Ar.Th.395, Ath.4.167f.
4. dub. sens. in Thphr.HP5.6.2.
III. sg.,= ἱστός, mast, Eust.1533.31; pole, dub. l. in Nic.Th.198; set up on a cenotaph, Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.31.
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 (9):
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 395
    • Bacchylides, Dithyrambs, 16.83
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.16
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.676
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.414
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.353
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.252
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.3.18
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.566
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