πτέρνη( Hp. Art. 3 , Epid. 5.48 , Phot. ), laterπτέρνᾰ( Lyc. 500 , LXX Ge. 3.15 , etc.),ἡ,
A. heel, Il. 22.397 , Hp.Il.cc., Arist. HA 494b7 ;under part of the heel, A. Ch. 209 (pl.);heel-bone, Gal. 2.776 , al.: prov., εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε
D. 7.45
.
2. hoof, LXX Jd. 5.22 .
3. heelof a shoe, Herod. 7.21 , Phryn. PS p.69B.
4. footstep, LXX Ca. 1.8 .
II. metaph.,footorlower partof anything, πύργων
Lyc. 442
; τῆς μηχανῆς
Plb. 8.6.2
; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.474f (but,waistof a ship, Hero
*Stereom.
2.52 ).
2. butt-endof theἀγκώνof a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 59.30 , 66.2 ; of a surgical machine, Orib. 49.4.9 ,al.