στασιώτης

A. στάσις B. 111) mostly in pl., members of a party or faction in a state, partisans, οἱ τοῦ Μεγακλέος ς. Hdt. 1.60, cf. 59,173, al.; acting as a body-guard, Antipho Fr. 1.

2. metaph. (with punning allusion to στάσις B. 1.1), οἱ τοῦ ὅλου ς. the partisans of 'The Whole', opp. οἱ ῥέοντες, Pl. Tht. 181a; ς. τῆς φύσεως καὶ ἀφυσίκους, of Parmenides and Melissus, who denied motion, Arist. ap. S.E. M. 10.46.