Included with: πτύξ, ἡ
(nominative only Grammars ,[[ Hdn.Gr. 1.396, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] Refs 5th c.AD+], dative πτῠχί [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.22: _plural_ πτύχες, πτύχας, 7.247, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 143, etc.: after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] πτῠχή, ῆς, which prevails in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below 11)] Refs 5th c.BC+] and Trag.; the metre requires accusative singular πτύχα in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 979 (Lyric poetry), but _accusative_ _plural_ πτυχάς in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in other places either πτύχας or πτυχάς will suit the metre:—poetry word, layer, plate, mostly in plural, σάκεος πτύχες plates of metal or leather, in strong shields, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.481, compare 7.247, 20.269, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 143. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 fold (i.e.folded piece) of a garment, in plural, first in [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 176, then in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 494, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 979 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the entrails, κατὰ σπλάγχνων πτυχάς[[ [prev. work] 212; εἰς τὰς πτυχάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 549a17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; coats of the stomach, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.556] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; layers of muscles, [[ [prev. author] 18(2).944. ] Refs]
__3 writing tablets, ἐν πτυχαῖς βίβλων κατεσφραγισμένα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 947; γραμμάτων πτυχὰς ἔχων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 144; ἐν δέλτου πτυχαῖς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 98, compare “IG” 9 (1).880.10 (Corc.). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]