λόγχη
logche
spear-head
Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
λόγχη (A), ἡ, A. spear-head, 7.69; λ. δορός Tr. 856, Tr. 1318 (both lyr.): also in pl. of a single spear, the point with its barbs, τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον the shaft alike with the spear-head, 1.52, etc.; λόγχαι δʼ ἐκαυλίζοντο καὶ ξυστὴ κάμαξ Fr. 404, cf. Cyn. 10.3 (where the shaft is ῥάβδος) ; οἱ κνώδοντες τῆς λόγχης the barbs of the spear-head, ib.16. 2. lance-shaped birth-mark, 84. II. lance, spear, javelin, 129; χαλκέας λόγχας ἀκμᾷ N. 10.60, cf. Tr. 512 (lyr.), etc.: metaph., ὀμμάτων ἄπο λόγχας ἵησιν Fr. 157; λόγχας ἐσθίων, prov. of a bragging coward, a ‘fire-eater’, 12.5. III. troop of spearmen, ξὺν ἑπτὰ λόγχαις OC 1312, cf. Ant. 119 (lyr.); μυρίαν ἄγων λόγχην Ph. 442; λόγχης ἀριθμῷ πλείονος κρατούμεναι Fr. 286.12; χωρεῖτε, λόγχη Cret. 45.
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