['Pathway'] and
sti/bos ['path']: [meaning] a road.[1]
"Having sent him ahead on that man's path he went."[2]
'Path' [is] masculine.[3]
And
Herodotus [writes]: "and indeed the Persians [went] keeping to that path, the one that they had forged earlier."[4]
And
Polybius [writes]: "along the same path."[5]
*stibi/a kai\ *sti/bos: h( o(do/s. au)to\n prope/myas to\n e)kei/nou sti/bon h)/|ei. a)rseniko\n o( sti/bos. kai\ *(hro/dotos: oi( de\ dh\ *pe/rsai to\n pro/teron e(wu+tw=n geno/menon sti/bon, tou=ton fula/ssontes h)=san. kai\ *polu/bios: kata\ to\n au)to\n sti/bon.
The initial headword
stibi/a is the nominative singular form of a noun of which the only literary attestations are, in the genitive and dative singular, in the writings of
Oppian, including
Cynegetica 1.451 (genitive). The
scholia to that passage offer the same gloss in the genitive (
o(dou=). According to Adler the nominative
stibi/a is glossed with nominative
o(do/s in
Lexicon Ambrosianum 803. An alternative (and in late Greek, homophonous) spelling of this word,
stibei/a, is glossed similarly in ps.-Herodian,
Epimerismi 128.13, but its only attestation in literature is in
Diodorus Siculus 4.13.1, where it has the distinctly different sense of 'tracking'. None of the quotations that make up the bulk of this entry include this word; instead they exhibit the accusative singular form of the (nominative) secondary lemma
sti/bos (see n. 1).
[1] For the secondary lemma
sti/bos in combination with the gloss
o(do/s, cf.
Synagoge sigma227,
Hesychius sigma1850,
Etymologicum Magnum 727.35. The
scholia to many works in which some form of the headword appears employ the same gloss, including
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 48,
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 411,
Euripides,
Phoenissai 92, etc.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[3] This information is presumably offered to distinguish
sti/bos from
stibi/a, which is feminine.
[4]
Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 1). In place of
Herodotus'
h)/isan ('went'), the Suda erroneously reads
h)=san ('were').
[5]
Polybius 2.25.5 (web address 2)
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