λοξός
loxos
slanting, crosswise
Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
λοξός, ή, όν, A. slanting, crosswise, Off. 11; λοξή (sc. γραμμή), ἡ, a cross-line, Fr. 382.9; λοξὰ βαίνειν, of a crab, 109.1; λ. ὄφις Epigr. 26; ὁ λ. κύκλος the ecliptic, Metaph. 1071a16, 1.112, 527, 5.51, 1.4, Alm. 1.8 (without κύκλος 5.8.7); of the milky way, 5.68; τῶν ἀστέρων λ. γίνεται φορά Mete. 342a27; λ. δρόμος 8; λ. πορείας σχῆμα Phoc. 2; λ. φάλαγξ, a phalanx of which one wing is in advance of the other, Tact. 10.1, 21.8, Tact. 30.3; λ. ζῴδια, i.e. λοξῶς ἀνατέλλοντα, 3.1; οἱ λ. μύες the oblique abdominal muscles, 2.518, al.; λ. τῇ θέσει πρός τι at an acute angle to it, Sens. 73, cf. Mu. 393b15. Adv. -ξῶς, τὰ λοξὰ [ἐπιδεῖν] Hp.l.c. 2. of suspicious looks, λοξὸν ὄμμασιν βλέπειν τινά look askance at one, 75.1; λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρᾶν 34; ὄμμασι λοξὰ βλέποισα 20.13; λοξῷ ὄμματι ἰδεῖν 4.475; οὔπω Ζεὺς αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει Zeus has not yet turned his neck aside, i.e. withdrawn his favour, 11.2; but αὐχένα λοξὸν ἔχει, of a slave, as type of dishonesty, 536: hence metaph., mistrustful, suspicious, in Adv. Comp. -ότερον, ἔχειν πρός τινα 4.86.8. 3. of language, indirect, ambiguous, esp. of oracles, 14, 1467, Alex. 10; λοξὰ ἀποκρίνασθαι Id.D Deor.16.1; ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς λ., of Apollo, JTr. 28. (Cf. λέχριος.)
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