A.prolonged, elongated, “βέλεα” Hp.VC11, cf. S. Ichn.294; “π. ἡ τῶν ὄφεων φύσις” Arist.GA718a20; “σφῆκες -έστεροι τὴν μορφήν” Id.HA627b25, etc.; of Pericles, “π. τὴν κεφαλήν” Plu.Per. 3.
2. protruding, “γλῶσσα” Aret.SA1.5.
II. oblong, “σχῆμα” Pl. Tht.148a; “φύλλον προμηκέστερον ἀπίου” Thphr.HP3.10.1; of rightangled triangles, having the sides which contain the right angle unequal, Pl.Ti.54a.
2. of numbers, made up of two unequal factors (as 8 = 2 X 4, 32 = 4 X 8), opp. τετράγωνος or ἰσόπλευρος, Id.Tht.l.c., D.L.3.24; also of solid numbers, having not more than two out of three factors equal, Anon. in Tht.42.45.