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καθέδρ-α , ἡ,
A.seat, κ. τοῦ λαγῶ a hare's seat or form, X.Cyn.4.4; chair, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.6.25.1, CPR22.8 (ii A.D.), Hdn.2.3.7; opp. κλίνη, Plu.2.714e; of rowers' seats, Plb.1.21.2; κ. λοιμῶν, πρεσβυτέρων, LXX Ps.1.1, 106(107).32.
2. sitting part, posteriors, Hp.Int.47, Poll.2.184, PRyl.63.10 (iii A.D.).
3. base of a column, Str.17.1.46.
II. sitting posture, Arist.Cat.6b11, PA689b21, Thphr.Lass.5,7, Plu.2.45c, etc.
2. sitting idle, inaction, “ἐν τῇ καθέδρᾳ” Th.2.18; “κ. καὶ σχολή” Plu.Cam.28.
3. session, Luc. JTr.11.
III. chair of a teacher, “ἐπὶ τῆς Μωυσέως κ. ἐκάθισαν” Ev.Matt.23.2; professorial chair, “ἐπὶ τῆς κ. σοφιστής” SIG845 (Eleusis, iii A.D.).
IV. imperial throne, τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ κ. τοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, the Emperor's representative, BSA27.234 (Sparta, ii A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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