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ἴχνος , εος, τό,
A.track, footstep, Od.17.317, Hes.Op.680, Hdt.4.82; of the spoor of game, X.Cyn.6.15, etc.: metaph., track, trace, “κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄφαντον” A.Ag.695 (lyr.); ἐς ταὐτὸν ἐλθὼν . . λόγων ἴ. Id.Pr.845; “ἴ. κακῶν ῥινηλατούσῃ” Id.Ag.1184; “ἴ. παλαιᾶς δυστέκμαρτον αἰτίας” S. OT109; “ἴ. τειχέων” E.Hel.108; “ἴχνη τῶν πληγῶν” Pl.Grg.524c; “τὰ τῶν κονδύλων ἴ.” Aeschin.3.212: with neg., not a trace, “μαζῶν οὐδὲ ἴχνη” Aret.SD1.8; ἴ. ποδὸς θεῖναι, Lat. vestigia ponere, E.IT752, cf. Or.234; “θέσθαι” AP7.464 (Antip.); λεπτὸν ἴ. ἀρβύλης τίθετε step softly, E.Or.140 (lyr.); “ἴ. ἐπαντέλλειν ποδός” Id.Ph.105 (lyr.); “ἴ. ἐρείδειν” AP5.300 (Paul. Sil.); ἐν ἴχνεσί τινος πόδα νέμειν (metaph.) Pi.N.6.15; “ἰχνῶν τινος ἔχεσθαι” Lib.Or.64.4; “τοῖς στοιχοῦσι τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς πίστεως” Ep.Rom.4.12; κατ᾽ ἴχνος ᾁσσειν, κατ᾽ ἴχνη διώκειν, S.Aj.32, Pl.R.410b, cf. E.Hec.1059 (lyr.); “εἰς ἴχνος τινὸς ἰέναι” Pl.Ep.330e; ἴ. μετιέναι, μετελθεῖν, Id.Phdr.276d, Tht.187e; ἴχνους προσάπτεσθαι hit upon a trail, Id.Plt.290d; “τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ἴ. ἐς τὰ θεμέλια χρωμένους” Jul.Or.2.66b; “ἴχνη ὑποψίας εἴς τινα φέρει” Antipho 2.3.10; “μήτ᾽ ἴ. μήτ᾽ αἴθυγμα . . παραδιδόντων” Phld.Sign.29, cf. Rh.1.91 S.
2. poet., foot, E.Ba.1134, Herod.7.20.
3. hard sole of the foot, LXX De.11.24,al., Gal.10.876, Orib.47.9.7; sole of a shoe, Hp.Art.62,Arr.Ind.16.5; sandal, POxy.1449.51 (pl., iii A.D.).
4. τὰ ἴ. τῶν χειρῶν the palms of the hands, LXX 1 Ki.5.4.
5. ἴ. ἀνθρώπινον, as a measure of length, Ruf.Anat.31.
6. track, route in the desert, PRyl.197.8 (ii A.D.).
7. pl., representations of footprints as votive offerings indicating the presence of a God, “ἀνέθηκαν . . κατὰ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνέργιαν ἴχνη αὐτοῦ χρύσεα τέσσερα” BCH51.106 (Panamara), etc.
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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