ἁψίς

A. loop, mesh, such as form a net, ἀψῖσι λίνου Il. 5.487; ἁψῖδες nets, A.R. 3.138, Opp. H. 4.146.

2. felloe of a wheel, Hes. Op. 426, Lyr.in PLG 3.740; the wheel itself, Hdt. 4.72, E. Hipp. 1233; κύκλος ἁψῖδος the potter's wheel, APl. 4.191 (Nicaenet.).

3. in Archit., dowel-pin, IG 11(2).161 A 70 (De<*>los, iii B. C.).

4. disk, τὴν ἡμερίαν ἁψῖδα, of the sun, E. Ion 88; segment cut off by rainbow, Arist. Mete. 371b28, cf. Poet. ap. Plu. 2.103f.

5. arch or vault (cf. ψαλίς 11), ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπουράνιον ἁψῖδα Pl. Phdr. 247b, cf. Suid. s.v. αἰθεροβατεῖν, Epigr.Gr. 1078 (Adana), IGRom. 3.975, PMag.Lond. 46.41; κατὰ τὴν ἁψῖδα ποτώμενος Luc. Bis Acc. 33; triumphal arch, D.C. 53.22,26, etc.: metaph., κάμπτειν ἐπῶν ἁψῖδας Ar. Th. 53.

b. σελάνας ἐς δεκάταν ἁψῖδα in the moon's tenth orbit, i. e. the tenth month, Hymn.Is. 38.

c. ἡ ἀνωτάτω ἁ. θεάτρου uppermost tier, D.C. 61.17. (ἅψίδα in late Poets, Epigr.Gr. 440.9,445.4.)