στῦλος

A. pillar ( = κίων acc. to Gal. 6.544), esp. as a support or bearing, Hdt. 2.169, IGll.cc.; στέγης A. Ag. 898; δόμων E. IT 50; ς. μονόλιθοι BGU 1713 (ii/iii A.D.): metaph., ς. . . οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες E. IT 57, cf. Ep.Gal. 2.9, 1 Ep.Ti. 3.15.

2. ς. πυρός LXX Ex. 13.21, Apoc. 10.1.

3. wooden pole, E. Fr. 203, Plb. 1.22.4; [σκηνῆς] tent-poles, uprights, opp. διατόναια, PCair.Zen. 353.9 (iii B.C.); plank, Hp. Art. 47.

4. stile for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East acc. to Herophil. ap. Gal. Anat.Ad xiv (Arabic version, ii p.183 ed. M. Simon, Leipzig 1906); cf. στυλοειδής.