κλῖμαξ, ᾰκος, ἡ,
(κλίνω) ladder (because of its leaning aslant), [[ “SIG” 1169.92 (Epid.)] Refs]; scaling-ladder, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.7, etc.; κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 466,compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 489; κλιμάκων ὀρθοστάτας προσβαλών [prev. author] “Supp.” 497 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προσθεῖναι Th.[same place]; boarding-ladder, gangway, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1351, 1382, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. σκύτιναι, στύππιναι, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 102.13, 16. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 staircase, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.330, 10.558, +others, “IG” 22.463.46; κ. ξύλιναι [prev. work] 1668.84; κ. ἑλικτή] Refs 8th c.BC+] winding stair, [[ 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 1. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II frame with crossbars, on which persons to be tortured were tied, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 618, “Comica Adespota” 422. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 ladder used in reducing dislocations, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 42; κ. ἰσχυροὺς ἔχουσα κλιμακτῆρας [prev. work] 78. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III wrestler's trick, ἀμφίπλεκτοι κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 521 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus see at {ἐκ κλίμακος}. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]