tiptoe
ἡ δίκη χειροῖ τῆς ἀδικίας → Justice subdues injustice (?)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. ἄκρος πούς, V. ἄκρος δάκτυλος, ὁ.
on tiptoe: V. ἐπ' ἄκρων (Sophocles, Ajax 1230), ἄκροισι δακτύλοισι (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 266).
tread on tiptoe: P. ἄκρῳ ποδὶ ἐπιβαίνειν (Plato, Laches 183B).
standing on tiptoe: V. ὄνυχας ἐπ' ἄκρους στάς (Euripides, Electra 840).
walking on tiptoe: V. ἐν δ' ἄκροισι βὰς ποσί (Euripides, Ion, 1166).
on the tiptoe of excitement, adj.: P. μετέωρος, ὀρθός.
all the rest of Greece was on the tiptoe of excitement at the conflict of the leading states: P. ἡ ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς πᾶσα μετέωρος ἦν συνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων (Thuc. 2, 8).
be on the tiptoe of excitement, v.: Ar. and P. ἐπαίρεσθαι, P. αἰωρεῖσθαι, P. and V. ἀναπτεροῦσθαι. (Xen. also Ar.).
