ὄργυια: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Att. [[ὄργυα|ὄργυᾰ]], ᾶς, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1672.9 ; Ion. [[ὀργυιή]], ῆς, ἡ (v. infr.): ([[ὀρέγω]]):—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[the length of the outstretched arms]], about [[six feet]] or [[one fathom]], ἕστηκε ξύλον . . ὅσον τ' ὄργυι' ὑπὲρ αἴης <span class="bibl">Il.23.327</span> ; τοῦ μὲν ὅσον τ' ὄργυιαν ἐγὼν ἀπέκοψα <span class="bibl">Od.9.325</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">10.167</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.3.19</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> more precisely, αἱ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι στάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον, ἑξαπέδου τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης καὶ τετραπήχεος <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.149</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">4.41</span>,<span class="bibl">86</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHal.</span> 1.98</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>669.39</span> (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[rod for measuring land]], = <span class="bibl">91</span>/<span class="bibl">4</span> [[σπιθαμαὶ βασιλικαί]], Hero <b class="b2">*Geom</b>.4.11 :—poet. also [[ὀρόγυια]] (q.v.): in compds. <b class="b3">-ωρυγ-</b>, v. [[δεκώρυγος]]. (Proparox. in nom. and acc. sg., Hom. ll.cc. ; oxyt. or perispom. in other cases, cf. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.613</span>, al. ; in Ion. the nom. and acc. sg. end in <b class="b3">-ᾰ, -ᾰν</b>, as in Att., Hom. ll.cc., the gen. and dat. sg. in <b class="b3">-ῆς, -ῇ</b> (acc. [[ὀργυιήν]] before consonant in <span class="bibl">Arat.69</span>,<span class="bibl">196</span>, is corrected to [[ὄργυιαν]] by Voss); [[ὀργυιά]], -άν</b> in late Gr., Hero l.c., etc.)</span>