αὖλαξ
καὶ οἱ ἀμαθέστατοι τῶν ἰατρῶν τὸ αὐτὸ σοὶ ποιοῦσιν, ἐλεφαντίνους νάρθηκας καὶ σικύας ἀργυρᾶς ποιούμενοι καὶ σμίλας χρυσοκολλήτους: ὁπόταν δὲ καὶ χρήσασθαι τούτοις δέῃ, οἱ μὲν οὐδὲ ὅπως χρὴ μεταχειρίσασθαι αὐτὰ ἴσασιν → the most ignorant of doctors do the same as you, getting themselves ivory containers, silver cupping instruments, and gold-inlaid scalpels; but when it's time to use those things, they haven't the slightest notion of how to handle them
English (LSJ)
ᾰκος, ἡ (also ὁ, AP9.274 (Phil.), Aret.SD2.13), also ἄλοξ, οκος (q. v.); ὦλξ, found only in acc. ὦλκα, ὦλκας; Dor. ὦλαξ EM 625.38:—
A furrow made in ploughing, [βόε] ἱεμένω κατὰ ὦλκα hastening along the furrow, Il.13.707; κατὰ ὦλκας A.R.3.1054; εἰ ὦλκα διηνεκέα προταμοίμην Od.18.375; [βόε] ἐρίσαντε ἐν αὔλακι Hes.Op. 439; ἰθεῖάν κ' αὔλακ' ἐλαύνοι ib.443; ὀρθὰς αὔλακας . . ἤλαυνε Pi.P.4.227; ἀρότρῳ ἀναρρηγνύντες αὖλακας Hdt.2.14; αἰθέρος αὔλακα τέμνων Ar.Av.1400 (lyr.); ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν A.Ag.1015; βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα διὰ φρενὸς καρπούμενος Id.Th.593; ἐν ἄλοκι Ar.Av.234 (lyr.). b furrow's breadth, Thphr.HP8.8.7, CP4.12.1. 2 metaph., wife, σπείρειν τέκνων ἄλοκα E.Ph.18; αἱ πατρῷαι ἄλοκες thy father's wife, S.OT1211. 3 metaph., furrow in the skin, gash, wound, ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ A.Ch.25 (lyr.); δορὸς ἄλοκα E.HF164; of the line drawn by the stile in writing, ποίαν αὔλακα; Ar.Th.782 (anap.), cf. AP 6.68 (Jul. Aegypt.). 4 swathe, Theoc.10.6. 5 αὖ. ὑδροφόρος aque-duct, IG14.453 (Catana). b αὔλακας· κοίλους τόπους, Hsch.— Chiefly poet., never in good Att. Prose; Hom. only in acc. ὦλκα; αὖλαξ only is used by Pi. and Hdt., ἄλοξ only by Trag.; both αὖλαξ and ἄλοξ by Ar. (Cf. Lac. εὐλάκα 'plough', Lith. velkù, Slav. vlèką 'pull'.)
