πῆχυς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(Aeol. [[πᾶχυς]] Alc.33), ὁ, gen.<br><span class="bld">A</span> πήχεος Hp.Fract.2, al., Hdt. 1.178, Pl.Alc.1.126d, Arist.Mir.813a10, LXXEx.25.9, al., Plb.10.44.2, Ph.Bel.73.42, πήχεως Arist.HA606a14 (v.l. -εος), PCair.Zen.484.10 (iii B.C.), πήχως (condemned by Phryn.222) corrected to πήχεος PCair.Zen.665.1 (iii B. C.) : gen. pl. πήχεων IG12.314.39, 22.1673.15, PCair.Zen.353.10 (iii B. C.); later contr. πηχῶν X.An.4.7.16 codd., Arist.Pol.1302b37, PCair.Zen.54.4 (iii B. C.), PStrassb.85.20 (ii B. C.), Phld.Sign.2, Phryn.222, Moer.p.327 P.:—[[forearm]], from [[wrist]] to [[elbow]], Hp.Fract.2, 3, al., Poll.2.140; opp. [[βραχίων]], Pl.Ti.75a, X. Eq.12.5: in Poets, generally, [[arm]], ἀμφὶ δ' ἑὸν φίλον υίὸν ἐχεύατο πήχεε λευκώ Il.5.314, cf. Od.17.38, 23.240; λευκὸν ἀντείνασα πῆχυν B.Fr.13.4, cf. E.Or.1466 (lyr.); λαιὸν ἔπαιρε πῆχυν Id.Heracl.728.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Anat., [[ulna]], Ruf.Onom.80, Gal.UP2.2, Sor.Fract.20.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[centrepiece]], which [[join]]ed the two [[horn]]s of the [[bow]], τόν ῥ' [ὀϊστὸν] ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρήν Od.21.419; ὁ δὲ τόξου πῆχυν ἄνελκε Il.11.375, 13.583.<br><span class="bld">III</span> in plural, [[πήχεις]] = [[horn]]s of the [[lyre]], opp. [[ζυγόν]] (the [[bridge]]), Hdt.4.192; πήχεις ἐναρμόσας καὶ ζυγώσας Luc.DDeor.7.4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> also, = [[ζυγόν]], [[crosspiece]] or [[bridge]] in which the horns were fitted, Artemo Hist.12.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> in the [[balance]], [[beam]], IG22.1013.32, Theol.Ar. 29.<br><span class="bld">V</span> as a [[measure]] of [[length]], [[distance]] from the [[point]] of the [[elbow]] to that of the [[middle]] [[finger]] = 6 [[παλαστή|παλασταί]] = 24 [[δάκτυλος|δάκτυλοι]], Poll.2.158; πῆχυς [[μέτριος]] Hdt.1.178; πῆχυς [[ἰδιωτικός]], πῆχυς [[κοινός]], Sch.Luc.Cat.16; but πῆχυς [[βασιλήϊος]] = 27 [[δάκτυλος|δάκτυλοι]], Hdt.1.178, 7.117; ὁ [[Αἰγύπτιος]] πῆχυς τυγχάνει ἴσος ἐὼν τῷ Σαμίῳ Id.2.168, cf. Luc. l. c.; for later measurements, Hero Deff.131, Geom.4.2,al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[cubit]]-[[rule]], as we say '[[foot]]-[[rule]]', Ar. Ra.799, Gal.1.47; πῆχυς [[ἀκαμπής]] AP6.204 (Leon.); as [[epithet]] of [[Nemesis]], APl.4.223, 224.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph. of any [[small]] [[amount]] (cf. [[πήχυιος]]), Ev.Matt.6.27; [[κατὰ πῆχυν]] = [[little]] by [[little]], Marin.Procl.26.<br><span class="bld">VI</span> [[πήχεις]], [[οἱ]], the [[cubit]]s (of [[inundation]]), represented in [[picture]]s as [[children]] one [[cubit]] high [[play]]ing round the [[Nile]], Luc.Rh.Pr.6, Philostr. Im.1.5. (Cf. Skt. bāhú-, Avest. bāzu- (masc.) '[[arm]]', ONorse bógr '[[shoulder]]'.)