πτέρνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(<span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Epid.</span>5.48</span>, Phot.), later πτέρνᾰ (Lyc.500, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>3.15</span>, etc.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[heel]], <span class="bibl">Il.22.397</span>, Hp.Il.cc., <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>494b7</span>; [[under part of the heel]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>209</span> (pl.); [[heel-bone]], Gal.2.776, al.: [[proverb|prov.]], εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε <span class="bibl">D.7.45</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[hoof]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span>5.22</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[heel]] of a shoe, <span class="bibl">Herod.7.21</span>, <span class="bibl">Phryn.<span class="title">PS</span>p.69B.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[footstep]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ca.</span>1.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[foot]] or [[lower part]] of anything, πύργων Lyc.442; τῆς μηχανῆς <span class="bibl">Plb.8.6.2</span>; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.11.474f</span> (but, [[waist]] of a ship, Hero ''*Stereom''.2.52). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[butt-end]] of the [[ἀγκών]] of a torsion-engine, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>59.30</span>,<span class="bibl">66.2</span>; of a surgical machine, <span class="bibl">Orib.49.4.9</span>,al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[ham]] (mock Epicism formed from Lat. [[perna]]), <span class="bibl">Batr.37</span>; f.l. for [[πέρνα]] in <span class="bibl">Aët.15.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg.7.17.74</span> ([[πέρνα]] correctly in <span class="bibl">4.32</span>).</span>