ἄμαξα [ᾰ],
Attic dialect ἅμαξα, ἡ, (see. ἄξων) properly frame-work, 'châssis' of a four-wheeled wagon (ἀπήνη), opposed to πείρινς (body), [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.263sqq., compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.37, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—also, of the whole wagon,[[ [prev. work] 260, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 453, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the wagons of the Scythians, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.114, 121] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βοῦς ὑφ᾽ ἁμάξης draught-oxen, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.22, 25. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive, wagon-load, πετρῶν, σίτου, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.10, “Cyr.” 2.4.18; ἐλλεβόρου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 299b; τρισσῶν ἁμαξῶν βάρος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 385, compare 473. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 proverbial, ἡ ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν (i.e. ἕλκει) 'the cart before the horse', [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 6.2] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐξἁμάξης ὑβρίζειν, of abusive ribaldry, such as was allowed to the women as they were taken in wagons to the Eleusinian mysteries, [[Scholia 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.122, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1014, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 396] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βοᾶς.. ὥσπερ ἐξ ἁμάξης D. [prev. cited]
__II carriage of a plough, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 426, 453. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]