λοξός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">slanting, crosswise</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Off.</span>11</span>; <b class="b3">λοξή</b> (sc. <b class="b3">γραμμή</b>), ἡ, a <b class="b2">cross</b>-line, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>382.9</span>; <b class="b3">λοξὰ βαίνειν</b>, of a crab, <span class="bibl">Babr.109.1</span>; λ. ὄφις <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>26</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ λ. κύκλος</b> <b class="b2">the ecliptic</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1071a16</span>, <span class="bibl">Cleanth.Stoic.1.112</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.527</span>, <span class="bibl">Gem.5.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Cleom.1.4</span>, Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>1.8 (without κύκλος <span class="bibl">Plot.5.8.7</span>); of the milky way, <span class="bibl">Gem.5.68</span>; τῶν ἀστέρων λ. γίνεται φορά <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>342a27</span>; λ. δρόμος <span class="bibl">Diog.Oen.8</span>; λ. πορείας σχῆμα <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Phoc.</span>2</span>; <b class="b3">λ. φάλαγξ</b>, a phalanx of which one wing is in advance of the other, Ascl.<span class="title">Tact.</span>10.1, <span class="bibl">Onos.21.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">Tact.</span>30.3</span>; <b class="b3">λ. ζῴδια</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">λοξῶς ἀνατέλλοντα</b>, <span class="bibl">Heph.Astr.3.1</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ λ. μύες</b> the <b class="b2">oblique</b> abdominal muscles, Gal.2.518, al.; <b class="b3">λ. τῇ θέσει πρός τι</b> <b class="b2">at an acute angle</b> to it, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sens.</span>73</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>393b15</span>. Adv. -<b class="b3">ξῶς, τὰ λοξὰ [ἐπιδεῖν</b>] Hp.l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of suspicious looks, <b class="b3">λοξὸν ὄμμασιν βλέπειν τινά</b> look <b class="b2">askance</b> at one, <span class="bibl">Anacr.75.1</span>; λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾶν <span class="bibl">Sol.34</span>; ὄμμασι λοξὰ βλέποισα <span class="bibl">Theoc.20.13</span>; λοξῷ ὄμματι ἰδεῖν <span class="bibl">A.R.4.475</span>; <b class="b3">οὔπω Ζεὺς αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει</b> Zeus has not yet turned his neck <b class="b2">aside</b>, i.e. withdrawn his favour, <span class="bibl">Tyrt.11.2</span>; but <b class="b3">αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει</b>, of a slave, as type of dishonesty, <span class="bibl">Thgn.536</span>: hence metaph., <b class="b2">mistrustful, suspicious</b>, in Adv. Comp. -ότερον, ἔχειν πρός τινα <span class="bibl">Plb.4.86.8</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of language, <b class="b2">indirect, ambiguous</b>, esp. of oracles, Lyc.14, 1467, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Alex.</span>10</span>; <b class="b3">λοξὰ ἀποκρίνασθαι</b> Id.<b class="b2">D Deor</b>.<span class="bibl">16.1</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς λ</b>., of Apollo, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">JTr.</span>28</span>. (Cf. <b class="b3">λέχριος</b>.)</span>