- αὖλαξ
- αὖλαξ, ᾰκος, ἡ (also ὁ, AP9.274 (Phil.), Aret.SD2.13), also [full] ἄλοξ, οκος (q. v.); [full] ὦλξ, found only in acc. ὦλκα, ὦλκας; [dialect] Dor. [full] ὦλαξ EM 625.38:—A furrow made in ploughing, [βόε] ἱεμένω κατὰ ὦλκα hastening along the furrow, Il.13.707;
κατὰ ὦλκας A.R.3.1054
;εἰ ὦλκα διηνεκέα προταμοίμην Od.18.375
; [βόε] ἐρίσαντε ἐν αὔλακι Hes.Op. 439
; ἰθεῖάν κ' αὔλακ' ἐλαύνοι ib.443;ὀρθὰς αὔλακας . . ἤλαυνε Pi.P.4.227
;ἀρότρῳ ἀναρρηγνύντες αὖλακας Hdt.2.14
;αἰθέρος αὔλακα τέμνων Ar.Av.1400
(lyr.);ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπετειᾶν A.Ag.1015
;βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα διὰ φρενὸς καρπούμενος Id.Th.593
;ἐν ἄλοκι Ar.Av.234
(lyr.).b furrow's breadth, Thphr.HP8.8.7, CP4.12.1.2 metaph., wife,σπείρειν τέκνων ἄλοκα E.Ph.18
; αἱ πατρῷαι ἄλοκες thy father's wife, S.OT1211.3 metaph., furrow in the skin, gash, wound,ὄνυχος ἄλοκι νεοτόμῳ A.Ch.25
(lyr.);δορὸς ἄλοκα E.HF164
; of the line drawn by the stile in writing,ποίαν αὔλακα; Ar.Th.782
(anap.), cf. AP 6.68 (Jul. Aegypt.).4 swathe, Theoc.10.6.5 αὖ. ὑδροφόρος aque-duct, IG14.453 ([place name] Catana).b αὔλακας· κοίλους τόπους, Hsch.— Chiefly poet., never in good [dialect] Att. Prose; Hom. only in acc. ὦλκα; αὖλαξ only is used by Pi. and Hdt., ἄλοξ only by Trag.; both αὖλαξ and ἄλοξ by Ar. (Cf. Lac. εὐλάκα 'plough', Lith. velkù, Slav. vlèką 'pull'.)
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