A.slanting, crosswise, Hp.Off.11; λοξή (sc. γραμμή), ἡ, a cross-line, E.Fr.382.9; λοξὰ βαίνειν, of a crab, Babr.109.1; “λ. ὄφις” Call.Epigr.26; ὁ λ. κύκλος the ecliptic, Arist.Metaph.1071a16, Cleanth.Stoic.1.112, Arat.527, Gem.5.51, Cleom.1.4, Ptol.Alm.1.8 (without “κύκλος” Plot.5.8.7); of the milky way, Gem.5.68; “τῶν ἀστέρων λ. γίνεται φορά” Arist.Mete.342a27; “λ. δρόμος” Diog.Oen.8; “λ. πορείας σχῆμα” Plu.Phoc.2; λ. φάλαγξ, a phalanx of which one wing is in advance of the other, Ascl.Tact.10.1, Onos.21.8, Ael.Tact.30.3; λ. ζῴδια, i.e. λοξῶς ἀνατέλλοντα, Heph.Astr.3.1; οἱ λ. μύες the oblique abdominal muscles, Gal.2.518, al.; λ. τῇ θέσει πρός τι at an acute angle to it, Thphr.Sens.73, cf. Arist.Mu.393b15. Adv. -ξῶς, τὰ λοξὰ [ἐπιδεῖν] Hp.l.c.
2. of suspicious looks, λοξὸν ὄμμασιν βλέπειν τινά look askance at one, Anacr.75.1; “λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾶν” Sol.34; “ὄμμασι λοξὰ βλέποισα” Theoc.20.13; “λοξῷ ὄμματι ἰδεῖν” A.R.4.475; οὔπω Ζεὺς αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει Zeus has not yet turned his neck aside, i.e. withdrawn his favour, Tyrt.11.2; but αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει, of a slave, as type of dishonesty, Thgn.536: hence metaph., mistrustful, suspicious, in Adv. Comp. -ότερον“, ἔχειν πρός τινα” Plb.4.86.8.
3. of language, indirect, ambiguous, esp. of oracles, Lyc.14, 1467, Luc. Alex.10; λοξὰ ἀποκρίνασθαι Id.D Deor.16.1; ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς λ., of Apollo, Id.JTr.28. (Cf. λέχριος.)
