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λοξῷ ὄμματι ἰδεῖν A.R.4.475; [[οὔπω Ζεὺς αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει]] = [[Zeus has not yet turned his neck aside]], i.e. withdrawn his favour, Tyrt.11.2; but αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει, of a [[slave]], as type of [[dishonesty]], Thgn.536: hence metaph., [[mistrustful]], [[suspicious]], in Adv.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