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κόνδυ^λ-ος , ὁ,
A.knuckle, Arist.HA493b28: pl., Hp.Art.2; κονδύλοις ἡρμοττόμην (v. “ἁρμόζω” 1.4); “κονδύλοις νουθετεῖν τινα” Ar.V.254: so in sg., ib.1503; “δοῦναι κόνδυλόν τινι” Plu.2.439d; κονδύλους αὐτῷ δείδι （῀ δίδου) POxy.1185.12 (ii/iii A.D.); “κονδύλῳ καθικέσθαι τινός” Plu.Alc.7, etc.; κονδύλοις [πατάξαι], opp. ἐπὶ κόρρης (a slap in the face), D.21.72: prov., κολλύραν καὶ κόνδυλον ὄψον ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ pudding and knuckle-sauce to it, i.e. a good thrashing, Ar.Pax 123, ubi v. Sch.; “λόγον ἔχειν τοῦ κ. προχειρότερον” Plu.Cat.Mi.1; νὴ τοὺς κ. οὓς ἠνεσχόμην, Com. oath, Ar.Eq.411.
II. generally, knuckle of any joint, as of the humerus, Gal.18(2).617; of the humerus and elbow, Poll.2.141; of the finger (middle joint), Ruf.Onom. 84; “ποδός” Luc.Ocyp.28.
2. knot in a string, Paul.Aeg.6.25.
III. any hard, bony knob, of the teeth, Hp.Epid.4.19, 25.
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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