A.“στάχυες” IG12.280.78,22.1424a333, etc.; Ep. dat. “σταχύεσσιν” Il.23.598; acc. “στάχυ_ς” Ar.Eq.393, OGI56.68 (Canopus, iii B.C.), but “στάχυας” LXX Ge.41.7, etc:—ear of corn, in pl., Il.l.c., Hes.Op.473, Ev.Matt.12.1, etc.; τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας τῶν ς. Arist.Pol.1284a30: in sg., A.Supp.761, Fr.304.7, S.Fr.395, and freq in E., Hec.593, al.: metaph., “ς. ἄτης” A.Pers.821; ἐκ καλάμης . . στάχυες, of Bacchylides' poems, AP4.1.34 (Mel.):—of the Theban Σπαρτοί, E.Ph.939, HF5, Ba.264; of the crop reaped by Cleon in capturing the Spartans at Sphacteria, Ar.Eq.393; βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον ς. E.Fr.757.6.
2. generally, scion, progeny, “ς. ἄρσην” Id.Fr.360.22, cf. Lyc.214; δισσὸν Βορέον ς. Orph.A.218; “τέκνων” Man.6.304; “Ἰνδῶν” Nonn.D.18.267; Ἑλλάδος ἀμώων ἄγαμον ς. AP9.362.25.
3. name of the chief star in the constellation Virgo, Spica Virginis, Arat.97, Ptol.Alm.7.5: in pl., Man. 2.134.
II. lower part of the abdomen, Heliod. ap. Orib.50.26 tit., Poll.2.168, cf. Eust.194.4, 410.17.
III. base horehound, Stachys germanica, Dsc.3.106, Plin.HN24.136.
V. surgical bandage, 'spica' bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.46 tit., Gal.18(1).814.
VII. = Heb. shibboleth, LXX Jd.12.6.