ἀγκών, ῶνος, ὁ,
bend of the arm, hence, elbow, ὀρθωθεὶς δ᾽ ε᾽π᾽ ἀγκῶνος[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.80; ἦ, καὶ ἐπ᾽ ἀγκῶνος κεΦαλὴν σχέθεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.494; ἀγκῶνα τυχὼν μέσον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.582, compare 20.479] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀγκῶνι νύττειν to nudge, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.485, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Riv.” 132b; κροτεῖν τοῖς ἀγκῶσιν τὰς πλευράς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.9] Refs 8th c.BC+]; proverbial, ἀγκῶνι ἀπομύττεσθαι Bionap.[[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 4.46] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγκῶνος δειπνεῖν, of the attitude at meals, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Legal.” 6. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 arm, Νίκας ἐν ἀγκώνεσσι πίτνειν[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.42; ἐς δ᾽ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶνα.. προσπτύσσεται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1237, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 bend in animals' legs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II any nook or bend, as the angle of a wall, ἀγκὼν τείχεος[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.702, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.180] Refs 8th c.BC+]; bend, bay of a river, [[ [prev. author] 2.99; ἕσπεροι ἀγκῶνες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 805] Refs 5th c.BC+]; headlands which form a bay, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 12.8.19] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀγκῶνες κιθάρας ribs which support the horns of the cithara, [[ Semus I, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; ends of stomach-bow, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 78.4] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; arms of torsion-engine, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 53.40, +others, 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 81.9] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; cross-bar of same, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 49.12] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; arm of throne or chair, [[ LXX.2Ch.9.18, {5th c.AD}: Caelius Aurelianus Medicus “TP” 2.1] LXX+5th c.AD+]; perhaps clamp, [[ PPetr. 3p.144. ] Refs]