ἄγκῡρα, ἡ,
anchor, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.9 (see. ἄγκοινα), 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 459] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἄ. βάλλεσθαι, καθιέναι, μεθιέναι, ἀΦιέναι to cast anchor, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).13, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.36, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 662, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.10] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. αἴρειν, αἴρεσθαι to weigh anchor, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 50, 80; ἀνέλοιο “Anthologia Graeca” 10.1 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); τὰς νέας ἔχειν ἐπ᾽ ἀγκυρέων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.12; ὁρμίζειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.59] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγκυρέων ὁρμεῖν ride at anchor, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.188; νηῦς μιῆς ἐπ᾽ ἀγκύρης [οὐκ ἀσφ]αλὴς ὁρμεῦσα 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.41; ἐπ᾽ ἀγκύρας ἀποσαλεύειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.22, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1071] Refs 5th c.BC+]; prov, ἀγαθαὶ πέλοντ᾽.. δύ᾽ ἄγκυραι 'tis good to have 'two strings to your bow', [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.101; ἐπὶ δυοῖν ἀγκύραιν ὁρμεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐᾶτε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.44, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 19; ἄ. δ᾽ ἥ μου τὰς τύχας ὤχει μόνη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 277] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς (i.e. ἀγκύρας) ὁρμεῖν τοῖς πολλοῖς, i.e. 'to be in the same boat' with the many, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.281; εἰσζ μητρζ παῖδες ἄγκυραι βίου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 685] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἴκων ἄ., of a son, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 80] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱερὰ ἄ., last hope, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 51. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II pruning-hook, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.2.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]