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ἄξων , ονος, ὁ,
A.axle, Il.16.378; “σιδήρεος” 5.723; φήγινος ib.838, cf. Hes.Op.424, A.Th.153 (lyr.), etc.
2. axis, of a cone, Arist.Mete. 375b22; of a conic section, Apollon.Perg.1 Def.7; of a cylinder, Archim.Con.Sph.1.260.
3. axis of the celestial sphere, Arist.Mu. 391b26, Arat.22, D.H.2.5; “ἄ. νοητός” Eust.1389.59.
4. metaph., course, path of action, LXXPr.2.9, 2.18.
II. οἱ ἄξονες the wooden tablets of the laws in Athens, made to turn upon an axis, Plu.Sol.25: sg. in IG1.61, D.23.31.
2. in pl., door-jambs, Parm.1.19.
III. in pl., part of a bridle-bit, X.Eq.10.9 and 10.
IV. the second cervical vertebra, Poll.2.132. (Cf. Skt. ák[snull ]as, Lat. axis, OHG. ahsa, Lith. ašìs 'axle'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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