ἄμαξα
ἵνα οὖν μηδ' ἐν τούτῳ δῷ αὐτοῖς λαβήν (Photius, Fragments on the Epistle to the Romans 483.26) → so that he doesn't give them even here a handle (= an opportunity for refutation)
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], Att. ἅμαξα, ἡ, (v. ἄξων) prop.
A frame-work, 'châssis' of a four-wheeled wagon (ἀπήνη), opp. πείρινς (body), Il.24.263sqq., cf. Od.6.37, al.:—also, of the whole wagon, ib.260, cf. Hes.Op.453, Hdt.1.31, Th.1.93, etc.; of the wagons of the Scythians, Hdt.4.114, 121; βοῦς ὑφ' ἁμάξης draught-oxen, X.An.6.4.22,25. 2 c. gen., wagon-load, πετρῶν, σίτου, X.An.4.7.10, Cyr.2.4.18; ἐλλεβόρου Pl. Euthd.299b; τρισσῶν ἁμαξῶν βάρος E.Cyc.385, cf. 473. 3 prov., ἡ ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν (sc. ἕλκει) 'the cart before the horse', Luc.DMort. 6.2; ἐξἁμάξης ὑβρίζειν, of abusive ribaldry, such as was allowed to the women as they were taken in wagons to the Eleusinian mysteries, Sch.D.18.122, cf. Ar.Pl.1014, Men.396; βοᾶς . . ὥσπερ ἐξ ἁμάξης D.l.c. II carriage of a plough, Hes.Op.426,453. III = Ἄρκτος, the Great Bear, Il.18.487, Od.5.273, Call.Iamb.1.119, etc. IV metaph., of a ship, A.Fr.451B. V = ἁμαξιτός, AP 7.479 (Theodorid.).
