A.thigh-bones, “ἐκ μηρία τάμνον . . κατά τε κνίσῃ ἐκάλυψαν, δίπτυχα ποιήσαντες” Od.3.456; “ἐπὶ μηρία θέντες Ἀπόλλωνι” 21.267, cf. foreg.; εἴ ποτέ τοι κατὰ πίονα μηρί᾽ (i. e. thigh-bones in their fat) “ἔκηα” Il. 1.40, cf. Od.4.764, al.; “πιανθέντα βοῶν ὅ γε μ. καίει” Theoc.17.126; but “δημὸν καὶ μ. ἔκηα” Il.8.240; “ἀγλαὰ μ.” Hes.Op.337, Thgn.1145; “κηκὶς μηρίων” S.Ant.1008; “τῶν μηρίων ἡ κνῖσα” Ar.Av.193, cf. 1517.—On the distinction between μηρία and μηροί, cf. Apollon.Lex. s.v. μηρία, Ammon.Diff.p.161 V., etc.
μηρία , τά (sg. μηρίον only in Posidon.16 J.); in Hom. and Ar. also μῆρα (q. v.):
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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