πυγή

English (LSJ)

ῆς, ἡ, heterocl. acc.

   A πῦγα Arist.Phgn.810b1 (τὸ πυγή is a barbarism in Ar.Th.1187):—rump, buttocks, Archil.91, Ar.Eq.365, Sor.2.60, etc.; pl., Luc.Peregr.17; ποτὶ πυγὰν ἅλλεσθαι to kick up the heels so as to strike the buttock in dancing, dance the fling, a girls' exercise at Sparta, Ar.Lys.82, cf. Antyll. ap. Orib.6.31.2; πρὸς π. πηδῆσαι Hp. Nat.Puer.13 (cited as πρὸς πυγὰς πηδᾶν by Sor.1.60).    2 metaph. of fat, swelling land, Eust.310.2.    II = οὐρά, EM513.14.

German (Pape)

[Seite 813] ἡ, 1) der Hintere; Ar. oft, ἐς κυνὸς πυγὴν ὁρᾶν, Eccl. 255; oft in der Anth., bes. Strat.; im plur., Rufin. 2 (V, 35), u. in Prosa, εἰς τὰς πυγὰς νάρθηκι παιόμενος, Luc. Peregr. 17; bei Ar. Th. 1187 sagt der Scythe τὸ πυγή; u. einen acc. sing. πῦγα hat Arist. physiogn. 6. – 2) übertr. der feisteste, fetteste Theil, z. B. ἀγροῦ, Paroem. App. 1, 3; Eust. 310, 2. – Ἅλλεσθαι πρὸς πυγήν, ein alter Tanz der lacedämonischen Jungfrauen, Ar. Lys. 82; vgl. Poll. 4, 102 u. Antyll. Oribas. p. 121, Matthaei.