[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <b><G>kanw/n</G></b>, <G>o/nos</G>: (1) <i>shuttle</i> or <i>spool</i>, by which the thread of the woof was drawn through the thread of the warp, Il. 23.761.—(2) <i>handle</i> on the interior of a shield, grasped by the left hand, Il. 8.193, Il. 13.407. (Il.) (See cuts Nos. 12, 16, 79; rudely represented in the adjacent cut.) <figure n=63></figure>
, κατατομὴκανόνοσ, title of work by Euc., cf. Phld.Mus.p.100K., Ptol.Harm. 1.8, 2.12; ὀκτάχορδος, πεντεκαιδεκάχορδος κ., ib.2.2, 3.1 tit. 11.
cross-bar of
κιθάρα, Porph.
inHarm.
p.207. II. metaph.,
rule, standard
, κανόνι τοῦ καλοῦ μαθώνE.Hec.602; γνώμης πονηροῖς κανόσιν ἀναμετρούμενος τὸ σῶφρονId.El.52; κανόνα προσάγεινLuc.Hist. Conscr.5; of the law, Lycurg.9; ὁ σπουδαῖος ..ὥσπερ κ. καὶ μέτρον αὐτῶν (sc. καλῶν καὶ ἡδέων) ὤνArist.EN1113a33, cf. Arr.Epict.3.4.5; τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν' ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖς προτέροις Ἕλλησιν ὅροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνεσD.18.296; ὡς κανόνι τῷ πάθει πᾶν ἀγαθὸν κρίνοντεσEpicur.Ep.3p.63U.; ὁ Ἐπικούρου κ. his treatise on Logic, Id.Fr.34, Damox.2.15; ὁ τῆς φιλοσοφίας κ. LXX4 Ma.7.21: Κανόνες, οἱ, title of treatise by Democritus; of a philosophic
principle
, Dam.Pr.312. 2. in Art,
model, standard
, ὁ κ., a statue by Polyclitus which furnished a model of proportions, Plin.HN34.55; also his treatise on the same, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.122 (adnot.); also in Literature, Ἡρόδοτος τῆς Ἰάδος ἄριστος κ., Θουκυδίδης δὲ τῆς ἈτθίδοσD.H.Pomp.3. c. of a person,
severe critic
, κ.
scriptorum
, Cic.Fam. 16.17.1. 3. Gramm.,
general rule,
AB1180, Choerob.
inTheod.
2 p.xxi;
paradigm
, οἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτωνA.D.Adv. 141.25. b. metrical
scheme
showing all possible forms of a verse, Heph.14.1, al. 4. in Astronomy and Chronology,
table
of dates, κανόνες ΧρονικοίPlu.Sol.27; sg., κανών, ὁ,
system of chronology
, D.H.1.74. b. astrological
table
, κανόνων καὶ εἰσόδων πήξεισVett.Val.108.19. 5.
limit, boundary
, expl. as τὸ μέτρον τοῦ πηδήματοσ, Poll.3.151. b. '
province', sphere of action
, 2 Ep.Cor.10.15. 6.
assessment
for taxation, PLond.1.99.5 (iv A. D.), etc.; οἱ δεσποτικοὶ κ. the Imperial
taxes
, ib.234.9 (iv A. D.); ἰδιωτικὸς κ. POxy.2124.10 (iv A. D.). 7.