φάτν-η, ἡ,
manger, crib, [ἵππους] ἀτίταλλ᾽ ἐπὶ φάτνῃ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.271; ἵππος ἀκοστήσας ἐπὶ φ. 6.506; ἵππους μὲν κατέδησαν.. φάτνῃ ἐφ᾽ ἱππείῃ 10.568; ἐϋξέστῃ ἐπὶ φ. 24.280; ἡ φ. τῶν ἵππων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.70, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 510 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.27 (_plural_), NT.Luke.2.7, +others] NT+8th c.BC+]; φάτναι Ζηνὸς, of the manger of Pegasus, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also of oxen, ὥς τίς τε κατέκτανε βοῦν ἐπὶ φ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.535, 11.411. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 βοῦς ἐπὶ φ., proverbial of ease and comfort, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.10; also πλουσίαν ἔχειν φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 378; φάτναις ἀργυραῖς χρῆσθαι 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐν τῇ φ. κύων 'the dog in the manger', [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 14, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 12.236 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; θεραπεύειν τὴν φ. τινός to court one who feeds you, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 107; τοὺς ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς οἱονεὶ φ. ἐδηδοκότας [prev. work] 39: τὴν αὐτὴν φ. ζητεῖν] Refs 2nd c.AD+] to return to their old haunts, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 129. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II ={φάτνωμα}[[ 1, “IG” 11(2).161 A 46 (Delos, 3rd c.BC): _plural_, [prev. work]42(1).109 iii 85, +others (Epid., 3rd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.66. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III socket of tooth, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.93. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]