"Just yesterday and the day before they had fled from the tavern, and cleaning its benches and sweeping the floor, but now they had put on purple-bordered mantles and pinned them on with gold brooches and [sc. their fingers] were bound by gold-encrusted signet-rings."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the singular] bathron, [meaning] a foundation-stone. Also [plural] bathra ["pedestals"], [meaning] statues.
"When he had lost his slippers and brought one foot to a step one of the soldiers ran up with a dagger and cut him down."[2]
And Sophocles [writes]: "holding the base of Salamis by the sea." That is, the foundation, the seat, through which Salamis stands.[3]
A bathron ["bench"] [is] also what they sit on in assemblies.