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ἄντυξ , υ^γος, ,
A.edge or rim of anything round or curved; and so,
I. in Hom. (only in Il.):
1. rim of round shield, 11.6.118, al., E.Rh.373 (lyr.).
II. post-Hom.:
2. bridge of the lyre, E. Hipp.1135(lyr.).
3. orbit of a planet, h.Hom.8.8, Procl.H.2.17; vault of heaven, “. οὐρανίηAP9.806, cf. 11.292 (Pall.); “. αἰθερίηIGRom.4.607; orb, circle of the world, Nonn.D.38.108; . ἡμίτομος . . σελάνας the disk of the half-moon, Mosch.2.88.
4. in Nonnus, of the curve of the body, . μαζοῦ, μηρῶν, D.1.348, 15.228, so perh. in Herod.8.29.
5. outermost tier, in a theatre, ἐσχάτη . τοῦθεάτρουEun.VSp.489B.—Poet. word, used by Pl.l.c., Luc.D Deor. 25.2, in signf. 1.2, cf. also 11.5.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1135
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1188
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1193
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 322
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.6.118
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 8 to Ares, 8
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 207a
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1030
    • Sophocles, Electra, 746
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 373
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