ὄργυια: Difference between revisions

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