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ὀκρίβας [ι^], αντος, ὁ, (ὄκρις, βαίνω)
A.platform or tribune in the Odeum at Athens, on which the actors appeared at the Proagon, Pl.Smp. 194b ; but expld. as τὸ λογεῖον ἐφ᾽ οὗ οἱ τραγῳδοὶ ἠγωνίζοντο, Hsch.
2. = κόθορνος, Philostr.VA6.11, VS1.9.1 : in pl., Id.VA5.9, Them.Or. 26.316d, Luc.Ner.9.
II. generally, like κιλλίβας,
1. painter's easel, Poll.7.129.
2. raised seat of the chariot-driver, Hsch., Phot., Suid.
3. dub. sens., “ὑπερθέντων ὀκρ[ίβαντα]” IG12(8).261 (Thasos).
III. ass or wild goat, Anon. ap. Hsch.
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 (4):
    • Plato, Symposium, 194b
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 5.9
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.11
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.9.1
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