λόγχ-η, ἡ,
__A spear-head, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.69; λ. δορός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 856, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1318 (both Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in plural of a single spear, the point with its barbs, τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον the shaft alike with the spear-head, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.52, etc.; λόγχαι δ᾽ ἐκαυλίζοντο καὶ ξυστὴ κάμαξ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 404, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.3 (where the shaft is ῥάβδος)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ κνώδοντες τῆς λόγχης the barbs of the spear-head, [[[prev. work] 16. ] Refs]
__A.2 lance-shaped birth-mark, [[ Trag.Adesp. 84. ] Refs]
__A.II lance, spear, javelin, [[ Batrachomyomachia 129; χαλκέας λόγχας ἀκμᾷ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.60, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 512 (Lyric poetry), etc.: _metaphorically_, ὀμμάτων ἄπο λόγχας ἵησιν [prev. author] “fragment” 157 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λόγχας ἐσθίων, proverbial of a bragging coward, a 'fire-eater', [[ 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 12.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.III troop of spearmen, ξὺν ἑπτὰ λόγχαις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1312, compare “Ant.” 119 (Lyric poetry); μυρίαν ἄγων λόγχην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 442; λόγχης ἀριθμῷ πλείονος κρατούμεναι [prev. author] “fragment” 286.12; χωρεῖτε, λόγχη [prev. author] “Cretan dialect” 45. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]