Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἴσχι^-ον

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A.hip-joint, in which the thigh turns, “κατ᾽ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται, κοτύλην δέ τέ μιν καλέουσιν” Il. 5.305, cf. 11.339, Od.17.234, etc.; later “τὸ κατ᾽ ἰσχίον ἄρθρον” Gal. UP15.8; also, the intra-capsular ligament of the hip-joint, Poll.2.186; = κεφαλὴ τοῦ μηροῦ, Hp.Art.53,58, Cael.Aur.TP4.38.

2. in pl. (dual, Autocr.1.6), fleshy parts round the hip-joint, haunches, of a boar, “ἰσχία τε γλουτούς τε” Il.8.340; of a lion, “πλευράς τε καὶ ἰσχία” 20.170; of a horse, Pl.Phdr.254c, cf. e; freq. of men, “ἐκ τῶν μηρῶν ἔς τε τὰ ἰ. καὶ τὰς λαπάρας” Hdt.6.75, cf. X.Eq.7.7; “ἰσχίων φύσιν . . πρὸς τὰς ἀναπαύσεις χρήσιμον” Arist.PA689b15; τὰ ἰ. σαρκώδη ἐποίησεν [ἡ φύσις] ib.b14: hence, other animals are said to have no ἰ., ib. b6,33.

II. later, the projecting part of the os innominatum, upon which man rests when sitting, Gal.2.772.

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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