ὄργυια

orgyia

the length of the outstretched arms

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 3
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Book IV 1
Chapter 5 530a32–531a7

530b9
Book VI 1
Chapter 14 568a11–569a9

568a26
Book IX 1
Chapter 45 630a18–630b17

630b9
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 3
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Chapter 1 830a5–25

830a19
Chapter 58 834b18–30

834b23
Chapter 134 844a6–16

844a12
Generation of Animals 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 3 781b30–784a22

783a23

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὄργυια, Att. ὄργυᾰ, ᾶς, IG 22.1672.9 ; Ion. ὄργυιᾰ, ῆς, ἡ (v. infr.): (ὀρέγω):—A. the length of the outstretched arms, about 6 feet or I fathom, ἕστηκε ξύλον . . ὅσον τʼ ὄργυιʼ ὑπὲρ αἴης Il. 23.327 ; τοῦ μὲν ὅσον τʼ ὄργυιαν ἐγὼν ἀπέκοψα Od. 9.325, cf. 10.167, X. Mem. 2.3.19. 2. more precisely, αἱ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι στάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον, ἑξαπέδου τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης καὶ τετραπήχεος Hdt. 2.149, cf. 4.41,86, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), POxy. 669.39 (iii A. D.). 3. rod for measuring land, = 9 1/4 σπιθαμαὶ βασιλικαί, Hero *Geom. 4.11 :—poet. also ὀρόγυια (q.v.): in compds. -ωρυγ-, v. δεκ-ώρυγος. (Proparox. in nom. and acc. sg., Hom. ll.cc. ; oxyt. or perispom. in other cases, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.613, al. ; in Ion. the nom. and acc. sg. end in -ᾰ, -ᾰν, as in Att., Hom. ll.cc., the gen. and dat. sg. in -ῆς, -ῇ (acc. ὀργυιήν before consonant in Arat. 69,196, is corrected to ὄργυιαν by Voss); ὀργυιά, -άν in late Gr., Hero l.c., etc.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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