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στεγα^ν-ός , ή, όν, (στέγω)
A.covering so as to keep out water, water-tight, “τρίχα” X.Cyn.5.10; “πλοῖα” Arist.Fr.554; of other things, “κλῶνες . . κεράμων -ώτεροι” AP9.71 (Antiphil.); πυκνὸν καὶ ς. Plu.2.692a; “προβλημάτων -ώτατον πρὸς ὀϊστούς” Id.Ant.45.
2. generally, enclosing, confining, “δίκτυον” A.Ag.358 (anap.).
II. closely covered, sheathed, λευκῆς χιόνος πτέρυγι στεγανός, of Polynices, represented as an eagle, covered by his white Argive shield (cf. λεύκασπις), S.Ant.114 (anap.); of a building, ἄνωθεν ς. roofed over, Th.3.21, cf. Trag.Adesp.115, Call.Cer. 55, D.H.1.26; “οὓς [ναοὺς] . . δοκὸς στεγανοὺς παρέχει” E.Fr.472.6 (anap.).
2. strongly fortified, “πόλις” Aristid.Or.21(22).12 (Comp.); “ἕρκη” Lib.Decl.23.77 (Sup.).
3. indoor, δίαιτα, opp. open-air life, Ph.2.297.
4. metaph., τὸ ἀκόλαστον αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ ς. its intemperance and leakiness, Pl.Grg.493b; and of persons, close, reserved, prov., “Ἀρεοπαγίτου -ώτερος” Alciphr.1.13, cf. Them.Or.21.263a, Or.26.323d, etc.
III. Adv. -νῶς confinedly, through a covered passage or tube, ἡ πνοὴ ἰοῦσα ς. Th.4.100; πωμάσαι ς. cover tightly, Dsc.2.76.14: Comp., “-ώτερον πρὸς τὰς τῶν ὑετῶν φορὰς ἀντέχειν” Ph.2.513; “ναῦς -ώτατα ἔχει” Aristid.Or.34(50).31.
2. metaph., “-ώτερον φρονεῖν” AP5.215 (Agath.); “-ώτατα κατεῖχεν ἔνδον τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην” Memn. 6.—Cf. στεγνός.
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 (8):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 358
    • Plato, Gorgias, 493b
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 114
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.21
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 5.10
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.100
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 45
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.26
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