- στατίων
- στατίων, ωνος (Lat. loanw. statio, found also in rabb., used w. various mngs. in Strabo 17, 3, 2, 826; ins [OGI index VIII p. 704b; Hahn 227, 14]; BGU 326 II, 10; PRyl 78, 23; O. Wilck I 294f.—See OGI 595 n. 4; JSvennung, ZNW 32, ’33, 294–308), ἡ and rarely ὁ (OGI 755, 4) prim. ‘a state or position of guard-duty, post, station’ στατίωνα ἔχειν= Lat. stationem habere = ‘do guard duty, stand sentinel’; this became part of the ecclesiastical vocabulary (Lampe s.v.) and in a transf. sense keep a fast (cp. Tertullian, Jejun. 13, Orat. 19, Fuga 1, Ad Uxorem 2, 4) Hs 5, 1, 1f (Leutzsch, Hermas 470 n. 51).
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.