ἄντυξ
antyx
edge or rim of anything round or curved
Appears 13 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄντυξ, ῠγος, ἡ,
‹ All lexicon entries edge or rim of anything round or curved; and so,
I. in (only in Il.):
1. rim of round shield, Il. 6.118, al., Rh. 373 (lyr.).
2. rail round front of chariot, ἐξ ἄντυγος ἡνία τείνας 5.262, 322; δοιαὶ δὲ περίδρομοι ἄντυγές εἰσι 5.728; καὶ ἄντυγες αἱ περὶ δίφρον 11.535: in pl. also Aj. 1030, Tht. 207a: in sg., μάρπτει δὲ . . ἡνίας ἀπʼ ἄντυγος Hipp. 1188.
II. post-:
1. pl., the chariot itself, El. 746, Ph. 1193: sg., κατʼ ἄντυγα Νυκτὸς ὀπαδοί 2.166, cf. Or. 3.122b.
2. bridge of the lyre, Hipp. 1135 (lyr.).
3. orbit of a planet, h.Hom. 8.8, H. 2.17; vault of heaven, ἄ. οὐρανίη AP 9.806, cf. 11.292 (); ἄ. αἰθερίη IGRom. 4.607; orb, circle of the world, D. 38.108; ἄ. ἡμίτομος . . σελάνας the disk of the half-moon, 2.88.
4. in , of the curve of the body, ἄ. μαζοῦ, μηρῶν, D. 1.348, 15.228, so perh. in 8.29.
5. outermost tier, in a theatre, ἡ ἐσχάτη ἄ. τοῦ θεάτρου VS p.489B.—Poet. word, used by Pl. l.c., D Deor. 24[25].2, in signf. I.2, cf. also II.5.