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ταινία , ἡ,
A.band, fillet, esp. headband, worn in sign of victory, “θήσω δὲ νικητήριον τρεῖς ταινίας” Eub.3, cf. Emp.112.6, X.Smp.5.9, Pl. Smp.212e, Paus.6.20.19, etc.; “ταινίας πωλεῖν” D.57.31; also, the breastband of young girls, etc., Anacreont.22.13, cf. Paus.9.39.8, Poll.7.65; abdominal band, Diocl.Fr.142; bandage, Hp.Art.50 (pl.), IG42(1).121.49,61 (Epid., iv B.C.), Sor.Fasc.25, al.; ribbon, distd. fr. λημνίσκος, PCair.Zen.696 (iii B.C.).
2. strip in fur, Opp.C.1.322.
3. pennon of a ship, D.Chr.74.8, Poll.1.90; of a spear, D.S. 15.52.
4. = ταινίδιον 111 or IV, “τ. χρυσῆ, ἐφ᾽ ἧς ἐπιγραφὴ Βασίλισσα Στρατονίκη . . ” Inscr.Délos 442 B 33 (ii B.C.); τ. περιηργυρωμένη ib. 29.
II. strip or tongue of land, D.S.1.31, App.Pun.121, Plu. Alex.26; sandbank, PTeb.5.30, PStrassb.85.20 (both ii B.C.), Plb. 4.41.1, Str.1.3.4.
2. name of a strip of land near lake Mareotis, Ath.1.33e.
III. in joiner's work, fillet, fascia, “τὴν τ. ἐπὶ τὸν θρᾶνον τοῦ νεὼ ἐπιθέντι” IG11(2).161 A50 (Delos, iii B.C.), cf. LXX Ez. 27.5, EM749.38; περιθήσει ταινίαν μέλαιναν a black band (round a mosaic floor), PCair.Zen.665.8 (iii B.C.).
IV. tape-worm, Gal.14.755, Gp.12.27.2 (pl.).
V. a long, thin fish, Epich.56, Arist.HA 504b33. [ι^, but ι_ metri gr., Emp. l.c., Opp.l.c.]
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 (12):
    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 31
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.52
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.20.19
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.39.8
    • Plato, Symposium, 212e
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 5.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.41.1
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.3.4
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 50
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 27.5
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 26
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.31
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