ποδεών
οἷς τὰ ὁρώμενα τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐνδίδωσι, καὶ οἷον ὑπήνεμα διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ πάθη ταῖς ψυχαῖς εἰστοξεύονται → who taketh his beginning and occasion from something which is seen, and then his passion, as though wind borne, shoots through the eyes and into the heart
English (LSJ)
ῶνος, ὁ, (πούς) in pl.,
A ragged ends in the skins of animals, where the feet and tail have been, ἄκρων δέρμα λέοντος ἀφηυμένον ἐκ ποδεώνων a lion's skin hung round one's neck by the paws, Theoc.22.52. II sg., neck or mouth of a wineskin, which was formed by one of these ends, the others being sewn up, Hdt.2.121.δ; neck of a skin bag, Hp.Aff. 21, prob. in Art.77(pl.); ἀσκοῦ τὸν προὔχοντα ποδάονα (Dor. form), of the membrum virile, Orac. ap. Apollod.3.15.6. 2 neck of the bladder, Poll.2.196, Phot. 3 generally, of any narrow end, π. στεινός a narrow strip of land, Hdt.8.31. 4 lower end or corner of a sail, sheet, which in old times was a strip of hide (cf. πούς 11.2), Chrest.Oxy.1241 v 1 (ii A.D.), Luc.VH2.45. 5 in pl., of a kind of shoe, Lyd.Mag.1.12 (πεδ- codd.); so perh. AP6.95 (Antiphil.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ποδεών: -ῶνος, ὁ, (ποὺς) ἐν τῷ πλ., τὰ ἄκρα (ποδάρια) τοῦ δέρματος ζῴων, δέρμα λέοντος ἀφημμένον ἄκρων ἐκ ποδεώνων Θεόκρ. 22. 52. ΙΙ. ἐν τῷ ἑνικῷ, ὁ λαιμὸς ἢ τὸ στόμιον ἀσκοῦ, Ἡρόδ. 2. 121, 4, Ἀνθ. Π. 6. 95· ― Κατὰ Φώτ. «ποδεών»: κυρίως τοῦ ἀσκοῦ τὰ προὔχοντα· ἤτοι τῶν ποδῶν τὰ δέρματα» Πολυδ. Β΄, 196· μεταφορ. τὸ ἀνδρικὸν μόριον «παρ’ ὅσον ὡς ὁ ποδεὼν τοῦ ἀσκοῦ προέχει» Σχόλ. εἰς Εὐρ. Μήδ. 679 (662 Elmsl.). 2) καθόλου ἐπὶ παντὸς στενοῦ ἄκρου, ποδεὼν στεινός, στενὸς λαιμὸς γῆς, Ἡρόδ. 8. 31. 3) τὸ κατώτατον ἄκρον ἢ ἡ κάτω γωνία τοῦ ἱστίου, ὅπερ ἦτο κατὰ τοὺς παλαιοτάτους χρόνους ἐκ δέρματος ζῴου (πρβλ. ποὺς ΙΙ. 2), Λουκ. περὶ Ἀληθ. Ἱστορ. 2. 45.
