ἕλκος, εος, τό,
wound, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.190, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1232 (_plural_), etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 festering wound, sore, ulcer, ἕ. ὕδρου the festering bite of a serpent, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.723 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; plague-ulcer, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.1, etc. (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.232 defines ἕ. as ἡ τῆς συνεχείας λύσις ἐν σαρκώδει μορίῳ] Refs 5th c.BC+], and both 1.1 and 1.2 are treated in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Ulc.” ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἕ. is applied to amputations in [[ “Art.” 68.) ] Refs]
__II metaphorically, wound, loss, [[ 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 652, +others; ἕ. δήμιον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 640 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὑποκάρδιον ἕ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.15; γίγνεται ἕ. ἐφ᾽ ἕλκει 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 1063.6. (Orig. Ελκος] Refs 3rd c.BC+], cf. Latin ulcus, Sanskritárśas (n.) 'haemorrhoid': ἕ- by influence of ἕλκω.)