ἡνία,
__BDoric dialect ἁνία, ἡ, post-[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+],= {ἡνία}, bridle, reins, in plural, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.32, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 193, etc.; πρὸς ἡνίας μάχεσθαι [prev. author] “Pr.” 1010 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς τοὐπίσω ἑλκύσαι τὰς ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254c: less frequently in _sing._, Ἥλιε.. ἐπισχὼν χρυσόνωτον ἡ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 847; ἡ. χαλᾶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 409 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: the singular for one rein, ἔπειτα λύων ἡ. ἀριστεράν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 743. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 metaphorically, Ἔρως.. ἡνίας ηὔθυνε παλιντόνους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1739; δυοῖν γυναικοῖν ἄνδρ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἡνίας ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 178; ἐφεῖναι καὶ χαλάσαι τὰς ἡ. τοῖς λόγοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 338a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παραλαβοῦσαι τῆς πόλεως τὰς ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 466 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τούτῳ παραδώσω τῆς πυκνὸς τὰς ἡ. [[ [prev. author] “Eq.” 1109; γαστρὸς πᾶσαν ἡ. κρατεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 81; τῷ δήμῳ τὰς ἡ. ἀνείς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐνδιδόναι τοῖς βουλήμασι τὰς ἡ. [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.35; παρὰ τὴν ἡ. πράττειν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.18 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; πρὸς ταῖς ἡ., of high officials, [[ “BCH” 32.431 (from Delos)] Refs]; ἐπὶ τῶν ἡ. [[ LXX.1Mac.6.28. ] LXX]
__B.3 as a military term, ἐφ᾽ ἡνίαν wheeling to the left (the left being the bridle hand), [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.23.2, 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 10.2, 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 4.3.21; [τὸν ἵππον] περισπάσας ἐφ᾽ ἡνίαν τῷ χαλινῷ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marcellus” 6 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐξ ἡνίας, opposed to ἐκ δόρατος, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.23.6. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]