σκέλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[leg]] from the hip downwards, only once in Hom., <b class="b3">πρυμνὸν σκέλος</b> the ham or buttock, Il.16.314; κάμηλος ἐν τοῖσι ὀπισθίοισι σ. ἔχει τέσσερας μηροὺς καὶ γούνατα τέσσερα Hdt.3.103, cf. 7.61,88; τὰ σκέλη τε καὶ τὰ ἰσχία πρὸς τὴν γῆν ἐρείσας Pl.''Phdr.''254e, cf. Arist.''HA''494a4; of dancers, <b class="b3">τὸ σ. ῥίψαντες, αἴρειν</b>, Ar.''Pax''332, ''Ec.''265; σ. οὐράνιον ἐκλακτίζων Id.''V.''1492, cf. 1526; <b class="b3">οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων</b>, of one thrown head foremost, S.''El.''753; <b class="b3">βαδιοῦνται ἐπὶ δυοῖν σκελοῖν, ἐφ' ἑνὸς πορεύσονται σκέλους</b>, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Symposium|Smp.]]'' 190d; <b class="b3">ὁ δεινός, ὁ ταλαύρινος, ὁ κατὰ τοῖν σκελοῖν</b> he [[with the legs]], [[the strider]], Ar. ''Pax'' 241 (but expld. by Sch. <b class="b3">ἀπὸ τῶν διὰ δειλίαν ἀποτιλώντων</b>, cf. Men. ''Per.''18); dual, τὼ σκέλει Ar.''Pax''325,al., cf. Luc.''Tim.''26, ''Anach.'' 1; [[σκέλε]] (i.e. prob. [[σκέλει]]) δύο ''IG''22.1388.24, cf. 1502.5; but [[σκέλη]] (pl.) [[δύο]] in Att. Inscrr. from 390 B.C., ib.1425.15, cf. 57, etc.; and so τὰ σ. Luc.''Ind.''9: sg., [[leg]] of sacrificial victim, ''IG''12.190.32, al.,42(1).40.10 (Epid., v B.C.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> as a military phrase, ἐπὶ σκέλος πάλιν [[χωρεῖν]], [[ἀνάγειν]], [[retreat]] with the [[face]] [[towards]] the [[enemy]], [[retire]] [[leisurely]], E.''Ph.''1400, Ar.''Av.''383; cf. [[πούς]] 1.6b.<br><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">κατὰ σκέλος βαδίζειν</b>, of the [[lion]] and the [[camel]], with the [[hind]] [[foot]] [[follow]]ing the [[fore]] on the [[same]] [[side]] (not [[crosswise]]), Arist.''HA''498b7, cf. 629b14.<br><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">παρὰ σκέλος ἀπαντᾷ</b> it [[meet]]s one [[across]], i.e. [[cross]]es one's [[path]], [[thwart]]s one, Arr.''Epict.''2.12.2 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] π. [[μέλος]]).<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b3">τὰ σκέλη</b> = the [[legs]], i.e. the [[two long walls]] connecting [[Athens]] with [[Piraeus]], Str.9.1.15, Plu.''Cim.''13; <b class="b3">τὰ μακρὰ σκέλη</b> D.S.13.107, Plu.''Lys.''14; of the long walls between [[Megara]] and [[Nisaea]], <b class="b3">τὰ Μεγαρικὰ σκέλη</b> Ar.''Lys.''1170; between [[Corinth]] and [[Lechaeum]], Str.8.6.22.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[sidewall]] of a [[temple]], ''SIG'' 247 ''K''1 iii 3, 11 (Delph., iv B.C.); of other structures, ''PPetr.''3p.88 (iii B.C.), etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[sidepole]]s or [[frame]]s of an [[engine]], Orib.49.4.4.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[tail]]s of a [[surgical]] [[bandage]], Heliod. ap. Orib.48.20.5; of the [[end]]s of the [[Persian]] [[headdress]], Plu.2.820d.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[member]]s of a [[sentence]], Sch.rec.A.''Th.''94. (Written σχέλος ''IG''11(2).161 ''B''61 (Delos, iii B.C.).)