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πέζα

peza

instep

Appears 6 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

πέζα, ης, ἡ,
said to be Dor. and Arc. for πούς, Gal. 19.129, cf. Ruf. ap. Orib. 25.1.56 ; τῶν ἄπο πέζαν ἐκτὸς ἔχων Androm. ap. Gal. 14.37 ; but distd. from it as the instep by Poll. 2.192 ; πρὸς πέζῃ ποδός Paus. 5.11.2, cf. AP 12.176 (Strat.) ; οἱ πόδες οἰδίσκονται καὶ αἱ πέζαι μάλιστα Hp. Mul. 2.169.
2. περίσφυροσπ., = πέδηI.2, AP 6.211 (Leon.).
II. metaph., bottom, end of a body, ἐπὶ ῥυμῷ πέζῃ ἔπι πρώτῃ on the pole at the far end, Il. 24.272.
2. edge, border of a garment, A.R. 4.46, AP 6.287 (Antip.), J. AJ 3.7.4, Hld. 3.3 ; of the sea, strand, bank, Ἐλευσῖνος παρὰ πέζαν Hermesian. 7.17 ; of a country, coastline, π. ἠπείροιο A.R. 4.1258, cf. D.P. 61 ; εἰς ὁδοῦ π. στενήν Luc. Trag. 238 ; of a mountain, D.P. 535, App. Pun. 103.
III. round fishing-net, Opp. H. 3.83.
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