νεῦρον, τό,
sinew, tendon, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], in plural, of the tendons at the feet, περὶ δ᾽ ἔγχεος αἰχμῇ νεῦρα διεσχίσθη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.316, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11, etc.; τὰ ν. οἷα ἐπιτείνεσθαι καὶ ἀνίεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98c ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ν. ἐξ ἰνῶν [γίγνεται] [[ [prev. author] “Ti.” 82c; σάρκες καὶ ν. [prev. passage]; σύγκειταί μου τὸ σῶμα ἐξ ὀστῶν καὶ ν. [prev. author] “Phd.” 98c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 515a27, +others: used adjectivally, [prev. work] 540a18 (assuming variant). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b ν. ἔναιμον vein, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὑγρῶν χρήσιος” 2, compare 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 208. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, in plural, nerves, sinews, τὰ ν. τῆς τραγῳδίας, of the lyric odes, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 862; ὑποτέτμηται τὰ ν. τῶν πραγμάτων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.166; ἕως ἐκτέμῃ ὥσπερ ν. ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 411b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκτ. τὰ ν. [οἴνου] [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.692c] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also πόλις ἥτις μὴ νεῦρ᾽ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας ἔχει [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.283: less frequently in _sing._, τὸ ν. ὑποκόπτοντες τῆς δυνάμεως 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.1.4; χρήματα ν. πολέμου 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.99. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II cord made of sinew, e. g. bowstring, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.122 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; string fastening the head of the arrow to the shaft,[[[prev. work] 151; also δέρματα συρράπτειν νεύρῳ βοός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 544 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; cord of a sling, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.17, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 11.112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; bowstring, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 3.8. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]