A.pin or tongue of a buckle or brooch, buckle or brooch itself, Il.5.425, Od.19.226,256, E.Ph.805 (lyr.); “ἐν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔσαν [πέπλῳ] περόναι δυοκαίδεκα πᾶσαι χρύσειαι” Od.18.293, cf. IG12.369.11, 22.1388.20; used for wounding, Hdt.5.87, S.OT1269.
2. pin for twisting ropes round, on board ship, A.R.1.567.
4. linchpin, Parth.6.4.
b. rivet in the Roman pilum, Plu.Mar.25.
II. small bone of the arm, radius, Hp.Loc.Hom.6 (dub.), Oss.3: more freq. of the leg, fibula, Gal.UP3.9, al., v. l. in Hp.Art.62.
2. ligament below the knee of a horse, X.Eq.1.5.
4. pl., splint-bones, Poll.2.191.
III. a kind of fish, Marc.Sid.15 (pl.).