A.heel, Il.22.397, Hp.Il.cc., Arist.HA494b7; under part of the heel, A.Ch.209 (pl.); heel-bone, Gal.2.776, al.: prov., “εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε” D.7.45.
2. hoof, LXX Jd.5.22.
3. heel of a shoe, Herod.7.21, Phryn.PSp.69B.
4. footstep, LXX Ca.1.8.
II. metaph., foot or lower part of anything, “πύργων” Lyc.442; “τῆς μηχανῆς” Plb.8.6.2; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath.11.474f (but, waist of a ship, Hero *Stereom.2.52).
2. butt-end of the ἀγκών of a torsion-engine, Ph.Bel.59.30,66.2; of a surgical machine, Orib.49.4.9,al.