θρόνος

A. seat, chair, Od. 1.145, Ath. 5.192e, PMasp. 6 ii 63 (vi A.D.), etc.

2. throne, chair of state, θ. βασιλήϊος Hdt. 1.14, cf. X. HG 1.5.3, etc.; Ζηνὸς ἐπὶ θρόνον Theoc. 7.93: metaph., Pl. R. 553c: pl., ἐν θρόνοις ἥμενοι A. Ch. 975; ἐκ τυραννίδος θρόνων τ’ ἄϊστον ἐκβαλεῖν Id. Pr. 910; Διὸς θρόνοι S. Ant. 1041, cf. Ar. Av. 1732; king's estate or dignity, σκῆπτρα καὶ θρόνους S. OC 425, cf.448; [γῆς] κράτη τε καὶ θρόνους νέμω Id. OT 237, cf. Ant. 166, etc.; in the Prytaneum, τῷ [Ἀπόλλωνι] θ. ἐξελεῖν IG 12.78.

3. oracular seat of Apollo, E. IT 1254, 1282 (both lyr.); μαντικοὶ θ. A. Eu. 616, etc.

4. chair of a teacher, Pl. Prt. 315c, Philostr. VS 2.2, Lib. Ep. 819, AP 9.174(Pall.).

5. judge's bench, Plu. 2.807b, Him. Ecl. 10.9, 13.16.

6. Astrol.,= ὕψωμα, PMich. in Class.Phil. 22.22(pl.).

b. favourable combination of planetary positions, Ptol. Tetr. 51.

II. a kind of bread, Neanth. 1 J.

III. name of a lozenge, Paul.Aeg. 3.42,7.12.