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ὀσφῦς , ἡ, gen. ὀσφύος: acc. ὀσφῦν, also
A.“ὀσφύα” AP12.213 (Strat.): —lion or loins, lower part of the back, Epich.80, Hp.Aët.20,Aph.3.23, Arist.HA493a22, al.; opp. κῶλα, ὦμοι, A.Pr.497, Hdt.2.40; loin of a victim, SIG57.9 (Milet., v B. C.), 1037.2 (iv/iii B. C.), Pherecr.23.4, Ar.Pax1053, Lys.964, Men.319.12; of wasps, ἔχουσι κέντρον ἐκ τῆς ὀ. Ar.V.225, cf. 740 (anap.); of a horse, X.Eq.1.12; of a fish, Antiph. 132.6(anap.).
2. Hellenist., metaph., ὁ καρπὸς τῆς ὀ., of a son, Act.Ap.2.30, cf. LXX Ge.35.11, al.
3. περιζώννυσθαι or ἀναζώννυσθαι τὴν ὀσφύν gird up one's loins, ib.Je.1.17; βυσσίνῳ ib.Da.10.5, cf. Ev.Luc.12.35. [υ_ in nom. and acc. sg., which are accented ὀσφῦς, ὀσφῦν by Hdn.Gr.2.937; ὀσφύς, -ύν freq. in codd., and this may be admitted for late writers: cf. ὀφρῦς.]
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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