A.limb, Hom., always pl., in phrases such as “γυῖα λέλυντο” Il.13.85; “ὑπὸ τρόμος ἔλλαβε γυῖα” 14.506; “ὅπποτέ κέν μιν γυῖα λάβῃ κάματος” 4.230, etc., cf. A.Pers.913 (lyr.), Id.Eleg.3; “γυῖα ποδῶν” the feet, Il.13.512; “μητρὸς γυῖα” womb, h.Merc.20; “γυῖα” hands, Theoc. 22.81; γυῖον, sg., the hand, ib.121 (so prob. as device on signet, Tab.Heracl.1.183); but “γυῖον” the whole body, Pi.N.7.73, Hp.Epid.6.4.26.—Not in Att. Prose: later, opp. στέρνα καὶ κεφαλή, Plu.Arist.14.
γυῖον , τό,
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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