πτέρνη: Difference between revisions

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|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"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">heel</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.22.397</span>, Hp.Il.cc., <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>494b7</span>; <b class="b2">under part of the heel</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>209</span> (pl.); <b class="b2">heel-bone</b>, Gal.2.776, al.: prov., εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε <span class="bibl">D.7.45</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">hoof</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span>5.22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">heel</b> 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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">footstep</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ca.</span>1.8</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b2">foot</b> or <b class="b2">lower part</b> 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, <b class="b2">waist</b> of a ship, Hero <b class="b2">*Stereom</b>.2.52). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">butt-end</b> of the <b class="b3">ἀγκών</b> 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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">ham</b> (mock Epicism formed from Lat. <b class="b2">perna</b>), <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> (<b class="b3">πέρνα</b> correctly in <span class="bibl">4.32</span>).</span>

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