A). breast, of both sexes, being the front part of the θώραξ, divided into two μαστοί ( Arist. HA 493a12 , PA 688a13 , al.), Hom. and later (cf. στέρνον), esp. in Prose, rare (and usu. metaph.) in post-Homeric verse; found once in Pi., twice in B., twice in A., never in S. or E. (v. infr. 1 , 11 ); βάλε ς. παρὰ μαζόν Il. 4.480 ; ἔβαλε ς. μεταμάζιον 5.19 ; κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε 8.326 , cf. Pl. Ti. 69e , 79c (pl.), Prt. 352a (pl.): in pl., διὰ στήθεσφιν ( Ep. gen.) ἔλασσε Il. 5.41 ; στήθεά τ’ ἠδ’ ἁπαλὴν δειρήν (of Briseis) 19.285 ; of animals, 11.282 , 16.163 , al., cf. X. Cyn. 4.1 , Arist. HA 496a9 , 15 , al., PCair.Zen. 532.7 , 18 (iii B.C.), BGU 469.7 (ii A.D.); ς. φάσσης ἑψημένης Sor. 2.41 , cf. 1.51 : as the seat of the voice and breath, Il. 3.221 , 9.610 , B. 5.15 , A. Th. 563 (lyr.), 865 (anap.); more freq. as the seat of the heart, Il. 1.189 , Od. 1.341 , Sapph. 2.6 , etc.; chest, Hp. Prorrh. 1.70 , Ar. Nu. 1012 , 1017 (both anap.), Th. 2.49 (pl.), Diocl.Fr. 142 , IG 42(1).121.100 (pl., Epid., iv B.C.), freq. in Arist. (v. supr.), PEnteux. 79.7 (iii B.C.), PTeb. 316.19 (i A.D.), Sor. 1.70b , al.; τὰ ς. breasts of a woman, Hp. Mul. 2.133 .

II). metaph., the breast as the seat of feeling and thought, as we use heart, freq. in Hom., but always in pl., θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὄρινε Il. 2.142 , al.; θάρσος ἐνὶ ς. ἐνῆκεν 17.570 ; ἔχει κότον .. ε<*>ν ς. ἑοῖσι 1.83 ; ἐν γάρ τοι ς. μένος πατρώϊον ἧκα 5.125 ; νόον καὶ θυμὸν ἐνὶ ς. ἔχοντες 4.309 ; μῆτιν ἐνὶ ς. κέκευθε Od. 3.18 , cf. Pi. Fr. 218 , B. 10.54 : in Prose, εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔφησθα ἐν τῷ ς. ἔχειν Pl. Phdr. 236c ; πλῆρες τὸ ς. ἔχειν ib. 235c .

III). = στέρνον 111 , breastbone, Hp. Art. 14 .

2). ball of the foot, ib. 55 , 58 , cf. Epid. 4.1 , Ruf. Onom. 125 ; τὸ σαρκῶδες [τοῦ ποδὸς] κάτωθεν στῆθος Arist. HA 494a13 ; ball of the hand (below the thumb), Ruf. Onom. 86 ; (below the fingers), Gal. 14.704 ; palm, dub. in Hp. Oss. 9 : cf. προστηθίς.

3). swelling, tumour, ἐν τῷ ἥπατι Aret. CA 2.6 (pl.).

IV). breastshaped hill or bank, Plb. 4.41.3 , PMasp. 169b47 (vi A.D.), cf. Hsch. (στῆθος has pan-Hellenic η, Sapph., Pi. ll.cc., IG 42(1) l.c., Call. Lav.Pall. 88 , Theoc. 2.79 , 15.108 , 135 .)