A.the part behind the thigh and knee, ham, “κατ᾽ ἰγνύην βεβλημένος” Il.13.212; “παρ᾽ ἰγνύῃσιν ἕλιξε κέρκον” Theoc.25.242, cf. 26.17, AP12.176 (Strat.), APl.4.253: also in Prose, Hp.Fract.13, Ruf.Onom.121; τὸ μόριον τὸ τῆς ἅλσεως κύριον （καλεῖται δὲ τοῦτο ἰγνύα) Arist.HA515b8: acc. sg. “ἰγνύαν” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.50 M.; “περὶ τὴν ἰγνύαν” Plu.Art.11: dat. pl. “ἰγνύαις” LXX 3 Ki.18.21, Luc.VH1.23. —From a nom. ἰγνύς , ύος, ἡ, we find dat. pl. “ἰγνύσι” h.Merc.152, v.l. in Luc. l.c.: acc. “ἰγνύν” Arist.HA494a8 (v.l. -ύην), Agatharch.53; dat. “ἰγνύι” Gal.10.902: gen. pl. “ἰγνύων” Arist.HA512b22, Herod.1.14: acc. pl. ἰγνύας is indeterminate, Plu.Galb.26. [υ_ in ἰγνύη, v. ll.cc.; but υ^ in ἰγνύων, ἰγνύσι.]
ἰγνύα , Ion. ἰγνύη , ἡ,
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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