sphendone

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From the Greeks the Romans derived also the sling (-funda- from --sphendone like -fides- from --sphion--),(I. XV. Earliest Hellenic Influences).

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  1. In Gr. archæol.:
  2. A form of head-band or fillet worn by women to confine the hair around and on the top of the head. It is characteristically broad in front and narrow behind, being thus opposite in its arrangement to the opisthosphendone.
  3. An elliptical or semi-elliptical area, or any place of kindred form, as the auditorium of a theater; that end of a stadium which was curved or rounded. The Messenian stadium, which is surrounded by colonnades, has 16 rows of seats in the sphendone. C. O. Müller, Manual of Archæol. (trans.), § 290.

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  • From the Greeks the Romans derived also the sling (-funda- from --sphendone like -fides- from --sphion--),(I. XV. Earliest Hellenic Influences). —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
 

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  1. from Greek σφενδόνη, a sling, a head-band, a hoop, etc.
 

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