ζῠγόν, τό,
also ζυγός, ὁ, (in various senses), [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 217, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 63b, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.29, LXX.Gen.27.40, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, NT.Matt.11.29, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.173a, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]: rarely in plural, ζυγοί [[ LXX.Pro.11.1, Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]: Delph. δυγός (which see).
__I yoke of a plough or carriage, ζ. ἵππειον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.799, 23.392; ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἤγαγεν ἵππους 5.731, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.383; ἐπὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θεῖναι βουσί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 815, compare 581 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ ζυγόφιν (i.e. ζυγοῦ) λύον ἵππους [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.576: proverbial, τὸν αὐτὸν ἕλκειν ζ] Refs 8th c.BC+]. 'to be in the same boat', [[ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.7, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.43; ταὔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ ζ. τρίβεις 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.12. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__I.2 metaphorically, ἐπὶ ζυγὸς αὐχένι κεῖται [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 217; ἐχθροῖσιν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν αὐχένα θήσω 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1023 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐπαυχένιον λαβεῖν ζ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.93 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δούλιον ζ. the yoke of slavery, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.γ, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 75 (_plural_), 471, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δουλείας, ἀνάγκης ζ., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 944, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1330; ὑπὸ ζυγῷ λόφον δικαίως εἶχον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 291 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπιτιθέναι τινὶ ζυγὰ τοῦ μὴ.. so as to prevent.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.27; ζυγῷ ζυγῆναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 508a; ἄγειν ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. τινάς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.82.2, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.22; ὑπὸ τὸν ζ. ὑπαγαγεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 36.10; ζυγὸν ὑποστῆναι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]