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|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[slanting]], [[crosswise]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Off.</span>11</span>; [[λοξή]] (sc. [[γραμμή]]), ἡ, a [[cross]]-line, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>382.9</span>; [[λοξὰ βαίνειν]], of a crab, <span class="bibl">Babr.109.1</span>; λ. ὄφις <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>26</span>; [[ὁ λοξός κύκλος]] = [[the ecliptic]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1071a16</span>, <span class="bibl">Cleanth.Stoic.1.112</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.527</span>, <span class="bibl">Gem.5.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Cleom.1.4</span>, Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>1.8 (without κύκλος <span class="bibl">Plot.5.8.7</span>); of the milky way, <span class="bibl">Gem.5.68</span>; τῶν ἀστέρων λ. γίνεται φορά <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>342a27</span>; λ. δρόμος <span class="bibl">Diog.Oen.8</span>; λ. πορείας σχῆμα <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Phoc.</span>2</span>; λοξή [[φάλαγξ]], a phalanx of which one wing is in advance of the other, Ascl.<span class="title">Tact.</span>10.1, <span class="bibl">Onos.21.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">Tact.</span>30.3</span>; λοξά ζῴδια, i.e. [[λοξῶς]] ἀνατέλλοντα, <span class="bibl">Heph.Astr.3.1</span>; οἱ [[λοξοί μύες]] = the [[oblique]] abdominal muscles, Gal.2.518, al.; [[λοξὸς τῇ θέσει]] πρός τι [[at an acute angle]] to it, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sens.</span>73</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>393b15</span>. Adv. [[λοξῶς]], τὰ λοξὰ [ἐπιδεῖν] Hp.l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of [[suspicious]] looks, [[λοξὸν ὄμμασιν βλέπειν τινά]] = [[look]] [[askance]] at one, <span class="bibl">Anacr.75.1</span>; λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾶν <span class="bibl">Sol.34</span>; ὄμμασι λοξὰ βλέποισα <span class="bibl">Theoc.20.13</span>; λοξῷ ὄμματι ἰδεῖν <span class="bibl">A.R.4.475</span>; [[οὔπω Ζεὺς αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει]] = [[Zeus has not yet turned his neck aside]], i.e. withdrawn his favour, <span class="bibl">Tyrt.11.2</span>; but αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει, of a [[slave]], as type of [[dishonesty]], <span class="bibl">Thgn.536</span>: hence metaph., [[mistrustful]], [[suspicious]], in Adv. Comp. [[λοξότερον]], ἔχειν πρός τινα <span class="bibl">Plb.4.86.8</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of language, [[indirect]], [[ambiguous]], esp. of oracles, Lyc.14, 1467, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Alex.</span>10</span>; λοξὰ ἀποκρίνασθαι Id.D Deor.<span class="bibl">16.1</span>; ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς λ., of [[Apollo]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">JTr.</span>28</span>. (Cf. [[λέχριος]].)</span>