Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, στάσι^μος

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b. stable, steadfast, opp. ὑγρός and ῥοώδης, Hp.Mul.2.111, cf. Nat.Mul. 1, Diog.Apoll.5 (Comp.); τὸ ψυχρὸν ἔοικε ς. εἶναι, opp. κινητικόν, Plu.2.945f; “ς. κίνησις” Pl.Sph.256b, cf. Tht.180b, Arist.GA717a30 (Comp.); “πνεῦμα” Thphr.CP5.12.11; “βίος” BCH51.148 (Salamis Cypr.); ς. ἄστρα fixed, Poll.4.156; ς. ὄργανα defined in Orib.49.2.6. Adv. “-μως” Hp.Acut.29: Comp. “-ωτέρως” Pl.Ti.55e.

2. of men, steadfast, steady, φύσεις κόσμιοι καὶ ς. Id.R.539d; “τὰ ς. γένη ἐξίσταται εἰς νωθρότητα” Arist. Rh.1390b30; “φρόνιμος καὶ ς. ἄνθρωπος” Plb.27.15.10; -ώτερος, opp. τολμηρότερος, Id.21.7.5: τὸ ς. steadiness, Id.6.58.13; τὸ ς. τῆς ἵππου the heavy cavalry, Id.3.65.6; “οἱ -ώτατοι τῶν ἀνδρῶν” Id.15.16.4.

3. of music, “ἡ Δωριστὶ -ωτάτη καὶ μάλιστα ἦθος ἔχουσα ἀνδρεῖον” Arist.Pol.1342b13, cf. 1340b9, Pr.922b15; μέτρον -ώτατον, of heroic verse, Id.Po.1459b34; λέξις ς. Id.EN1125a14:—but,

b. στάσιμον, τό, in Tragedy, choral song, distd. by Aristotle fr. πάροδος and defined as μέλος χοροῦ τὸ ἄνευ ἀναπαίστου καὶ τροχαίου, Po. 1452b23, cf. S.E.M.6.17, Poll.4.53, Ath.13.592b; expld. as sung by the chorus when stationary, ς. μέλος ὃ ᾁδουσιν ἱστάμενοι οἱ χορευταί Sch. Ar.Ra.1314, cf. Arg.A.Pers., Sch.Ar.V.270, Sch.S.Tr.216, EM690.49, 725.2; cf. στάδην.

4. ἀργύριον ς. money out at interest, Lex Solonis ap.Lys.10.18.

III. (“στάσις” A. 11) weighed, weighable: τὰ ς., = σταθμία, Cephisod.13; θεωρῶν . . τὸν ἄνδρα . . ἕλκοντα τὸ τῆς πράξεως ς. Plb.8.19.2.

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 (17):
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 1314
- Aristophanes, Wasps, 270
- Aristotle, Poetics, 1452b.23
- Aristotle, Poetics, 1459b.34
- Lysias, Against Theomnestus 1, 18
- Plato, Republic, 539d
- Plato, Sophist, 256b
- Plato, Theaetetus, 180b
- Plato, Timaeus, 55e
- Xenophon, Economics, 20.11
- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 216
- Polybius, Histories, 15.16.4
- Polybius, Histories, 21.7.5
- Polybius, Histories, 27.15.10
- Polybius, Histories, 3.65.6
- Polybius, Histories, 6.58.13
- Polybius, Histories, 8.19.2

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