βραχίων
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
[ῑ], ονος, ὁ,
A arm (opp. πῆχυς, Pl.Ti.75a, but = πῆχυς, Arist.MA698b2), Il.13.529, Hdt.5.12, X.Eq.12.5, Arist.HA493b26, etc.; πρυμνὸς βραχίων the shoulder, Il.13.532, 16.323; also, shoulder of beasts, ib.594b13:—Poet. as a symbol of strength, ἐκ βραχιόνων by force of arm, E.Supp.478.
βρᾰχίων [Ion. ῐ, Att. ῑ], βράχιστος, Comp. and Sup. of βραχύς.
German (Pape)
[Seite 461] ονος, ὁ, der Arm, Hom. Iliad. 12, 389. 13, 529. 16, 510 Odyss. 18, 69; πρυμνὸς βραχίων, der Theil des Arms, welcher der Schulter zunächst ist, Iliad. 16, 323. 13, 532; – Eur. Hec. 15; Plat. Tim. 75 a; – auch von Thieren, = die Schulter, Ar. H. A. 8, 5.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
βρᾰχίων: [ῑ], ονος, ὁ, τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὤμου μέχρι τοῦ ἀγκῶνος μέρος τῆς χειρός, Λατ. brachium, ἀντίθετον τῷ πῆχυς, Ἰλ. Ν. 529 κ. ἀλλ., πρβλ. Ξεν. Ἱππ. 12, 5· πρυμνὸς βραχίων, ὁ ὦμος, Ἰλ. Ν. 532, Π. 323· πρβλ. Ἀριστ. Ἱστ. Ζ. 1. 15, 3· ὡσαύτως, ἡ ὠμοπλάτη τῶν ζῴων, αὐτόθι 8. 5, 4· -παρὰ ποιηταῖς ὡς σύμβολον ἰσχύος, ἐκ βραχιόνων, διὰ τῆς δυνάμεως τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης, Εὐρ. Ἱκέτ. 478· ἀλλὰ σπάν. παρὰ Τραγ. (Ἡ ἀρχὴ ἄγνωστος).
