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στῦλος , ὁ (fem. at Epidaurus, IG42(1).102.66, al.(iv B.C.), but also masc. there, ib.109iii92 (iii B.C.)),
A.pillar ( = κίων acc. to Gal.6.544), esp. as a support or bearing, Hdt.2.169, IGll.cc.; “στέγης” A.Ag.898; “δόμων” E.IT50; “ς. μονόλιθοι” BGU1713 (ii/iii A.D.): metaph., “ς. . . οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες” E.IT57, cf. Ep.Gal.2.9, 1 Ep.Ti.3.15.
2. “ς. πυρός” LXX Ex.13.21, Apoc.10.1.
3. wooden pole, E.Fr.203, Plb.1.22.4; [σκηνῆς] tent-poles, uprights, opp. διατόναια, PCair.Zen. 353.9 (iii B.C.); plank, Hp.Art.47.
4. stile for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East acc. to Herophil. ap. Gal.Anat.Ad xiv (Arabic version, ii p.183 ed. M. Simon, Leipzig 1906); cf. στυλοειδής.
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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