δόμος

A. domus):

1. house, Il. 2.513, Sapph. 1.7, etc.; also, part of a house, room, chamber, Od. 8.57, 22.204: freq. in pl. for a house, Hes. Op. 96, etc.; freq. in Trag., A. Supp. 433, etc.: chiefly poet., οἶκος or οἰκία being used in Prose.

2. house of a god, temple, Διὸς δόμος Il. 8.375; δ. Ἀρτέμιδος Ar. Ra. 1273; Ἐρεχθῆος πυκινὸν δόμον the building of Erechtheus, i.e. the temple of Athena, Od. 7.81; Ἄϊδος δ., of the nether world, Il. 3.322, etc.; δ. δίκας A. Eu. 516 (lyr.); μυστοδόκος δ., of the temple at Eleusis, Ar. Nu. 303: so in pl., εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι Il. 22.52; δόμων τῶν Λοξίου A. Eu. 35, cf. E. Ion 249; chamber in a temple, χρύσεος δ. ἐν Διὸς οἴκῳ Theoc. 17.17.

3. abode of animals, e.g. sheepfold, Il. 12.301; κοῖλος δ. wasps' or bees' nest, ib. 169; serpent's hole, Ael. NA 2.9.

4. ξύλινος δ. pyre, B. 3.49.

5. κέδρινοι δόμοι closet or chest of cedar, E. Alc. 160.

II. in Trag., household, family, A. Ch. 263, S. OC 370, E. Or. 70, Med. 114 (anap.); one's father's house, ἔξω δόμων τε καὶ πάτρας ὠθεῖν ἐμέ A. Pr. 665, etc.

III. course of stone or bricks in a building, ὑποδείμας τὸν πρῶτον δ. λίθου Αἰθιοπικοῦ Hdt. 2.127; διὰ τριήκοντα δόμων πλίνθου at every thirtieth layer of bricks, Id. 1.179, cf. LXX 1 Es. 6.24, D.S. 1.64; καθ’ ἕνα δόμον Plb. 10.22.7.

2. ply or strand of gut in the τόνοι of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 65.42, Hero Bel. 82.1.