ἄμαξα

ἄμαξα [ᾰ], Att. ἅμαξα, ἡ, (v. ἄξων) prop. A. frame-work, ‘châssis’ of a four-wheeled wagon (ἀπήνη), opp. πείρινς (body), Il. 24.263sqq., cf. Od. 6.37, al.:—also, of the whole wagon, ib.260, cf. Hes. Op. 453, Hdt. 1.31, Th. 1.93, etc.; of the wagons of the Scythians, Hdt. 4.114, 121; βοῦς ὑφʼ ἁμάξης draught-oxen, X. An. 6.4.22,25. 2. c. gen., wagon-load, πετρῶν, σίτου, X. An. 4.7.10, Cyr. 2.4.18; ἐλλεβόρου Pl. Euthd. 299b; τρισσῶν ἁμαξῶν βάρος E. Cyc. 385, cf. 473. 3. prov., ἡ ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν (sc. ἕλκει) ‘the cart before the horse’, Luc. DMort. 6.2; ἐξ ἁμάξης ὑβρίζειν, of abusive ribaldry, such as was allowed to the women as they were taken in wagons to the Eleusinian mysteries, Sch.D. 18.122, cf. Ar. Pl. 1014, Men. 396; βοᾶς . . ὥσπερ ἐξ ἁμάξης D.l.c. II. carriage of a plough, Hes. Op. 426,453. III. = Ἄρκτος, the Great Bear, Il. 18.487, Od. 5.273, Call. Iamb. 1.119, etc. IV. metaph., of a ship, A. Fr. 451B. V. = ἁμαξιτός, AP 7.479 (Theodorid.).