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οἴαξ , α_κος, Ion. οἴηξ , ηκος, ὁ, prop.
A.handle of rudder, tiller (Poll.1.89), πηδαλίων οἴακος ἀφέμενος (cf. πηδάλιον) Pl.Plt.272e : generally, helm, “οἴακος εὐθυντῆρος ὑστάτου νεώς” A.Supp.717 ; “στρέφειν οἴακα” E. Hel.1591 : pl., οἰάκων φύλαξ ib.1578 ; “οἴακες εὐπρύμνου νεώς” Id.IT1357 ; “τὸν οἴακα εἴσω ἄγειν ἢ ἔξω” Pl.Alc.1.117c.
2. metaph., helm of government, “ἐν πρύμνῃ πόλεως οἴ. νωμῶν” A.Th.3 ; “πραπίδων οἴ. νέμων” Id.Ag.802 (anap.) ; “χαλινῶν ἔργον οἰάκων θ᾽ ἅμα” S.Fr.869, cf. E.Or. 795 ; “τὸν οἴ. στρέφει δαίμων ἑκάστῳ” Anaxandr.4 ; “τύχης οἴ.” IG7.3226.5 (Orchom. Boeot.) ; = ὡροσκόπος, Paul.Al.L.2.
II. in Il.24.269, οἴηκες are prob. rings of the yoke, through which pass the reins for guiding the mules, cf. ἕστωρ.
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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