πτέρνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(Hp.''Art.''3, ''Epid.''5.48, Phot.), later [[πτέρνα|πτέρνᾰ]] (Lyc.500, [[LXX]] ''Ge.''3.15, etc.), ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[heel]], Il.22.397, Hp.Il.cc., Arist.''HA''494b7; [[under part of the heel]], A.''Ch.''209 (pl.); [[heel-bone]], Gal.2.776, al.: [[proverb|prov.]], [[εἴπερ]] ὑμεῖς τὸν [[ἐγκέφαλος|ἐγκέφαλον]] ἐν τοῖς κροτάφοις καὶ μὴ ἐν ταῖς πτέρναις καταπεπατημένον φορεῖτε = if you had the [[brain]] in your [[head]]s and not [[trampled]] [[underfoot]] D.7.45.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[hoof]], [[LXX]] ''Jd.''5.22.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[heel]] of a shoe, Herod.7.21, Phryn.''PS''p.69B.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[footstep]], [[LXX]] ''Ca.''1.8.<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[foot]] or [[lower part]] of anything, πύργων Lyc.442; τῆς μηχανῆς Plb.8.6.2; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath.11.474f (but, [[waist]] of a [[ship]], Hero ''*Stereom''.2.52).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[butt-end]] of the [[ἀγκών]] of a [[torsion]]-[[engine]], Ph.''Bel.''59.30,66.2; of a [[surgical]] [[machine]], Orib.49.4.9,al.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[ham]] (mock Epicism formed from Lat. [[perna]]), Batr.37; [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[πέρνα]] in Aët.15.15, Paul.Aeg.7.17.74 ([[πέρνα]] correctly in 4.32).