ἄξων, ονος, ὁ,
axle, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.378; σιδήρεος 5.723] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φήγινος[[ [prev. work] 838, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 424, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 153 (Lyric poetry), etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 axis, of a cone, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 375b22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a conic section, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra 1 “Def.” 7 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of a cylinder, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 1.260. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 axis of the celestial sphere, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 391b26, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 22, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.5; ἄ. νοητός 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1389.59. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, course, path of action, [[ LXX.Pro.2.9, 2.18. ] LXX]
__II οἱ ἄξονες the wooden tablets of the laws in Athens, made to turn upon an axis, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 25: _sing._ in “IG” 1.61, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.31. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 in plural, door-jambs, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 1.19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III in plural, part of a bridle-bit, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 10.9 and 10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]