- ὄργυια
- ὄργυιᾰ, [dialect] Att. [full] ὄργυᾰ, ᾶς, IG22.1672.9 ; [dialect] Ion. [full] ὄργυιᾰ, ῆς, ἡ (v. infr.): ([etym.] ὀρέγω):—A the length of the outstretched arms, about 6 feet or I fathom,
ἕστηκε ξύλον . . ὅσον τ' ὄργυι' ὑπὲρ αἴης Il.23.327
;τοῦ μὲν ὅσον τ' ὄργυιαν ἐγὼν ἀπέκοψα Od.9.325
, cf. 10.167, X.Mem.2.3.19.2 more precisely,αἱ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι στάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον, ἑξαπέδου τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης καὶ τετραπήχεος Hdt.2.149
, cf. 4.41,86, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), POxy.669.39 (iii A. D.).3 rod for measuring land, = 91/4 σπιθαμαὶ βασιλικαί, Hero *Geom.4.11 :—poet. also [full] ὀρόγυια (q.v.): in compds. -ωρυγ-, v. δεκ-ώρυγος. (Proparox. in nom. and acc. sg., Hom. ll.cc. ; oxyt. or perispom. in other cases, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.613, al. ; in [dialect] Ion. the nom. and acc. sg. end in -ᾰ, -ᾰν, as in [dialect] Att., Hom. ll.cc., the gen. and dat. sg. in -ῆς, -ῇ (acc. ὀργυιήν before consonant in Arat.69,196, is corrected to ὄργυιαν by Voss); ὀργυιά, -άν in late Gr., Hero l.c., etc.)
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