Strong G4228πούς
foot
- Transliteration
- pous
- Pronunciation
- pooce
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
A primary word; a foot (figuratively or literally): - foot (-stool).
Detailed definition
πούς, ποδός, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for רֶגֶל;]
a foot, both of men and beasts: Mat.4:6 (LXX), Mrk.9:45, Luk.1:79, Jhn.11:44, Act.7:5, al.; ὑπο τοὺς π., Rom.16:20, 1Co.15:25 15:27 Eph.1:22, Heb.2:8; ὑποκάτω τῶν π., Mat.22:44 (LXX); πρὸς (παρὰ) τοὺς π., Mrk.5:22, Luk.8:41, al.; figuratively, Mat.15:30, Luk.10:39, Act.5:2, al.; ἔμπροσθεν τῶν π., Rev.3:9 19:10, al.; ἐπὶ τοὺς π., Act.10:25. By meton., of a person in motion (Psa.119:101): Luk.1:79, Act.5:9, Rom.3:15 10:15, Heb.12:13
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for רֶגֶל;]
a foot, both of men and beasts: Mat.4:6 (LXX), Mrk.9:45, Luk.1:79, Jhn.11:44, Act.7:5, al.; ὑπο τοὺς π., Rom.16:20, 1Co.15:25 15:27 Eph.1:22, Heb.2:8; ὑποκάτω τῶν π., Mat.22:44 (LXX); πρὸς (παρὰ) τοὺς π., Mrk.5:22, Luk.8:41, al.; figuratively, Mat.15:30, Luk.10:39, Act.5:2, al.; ἔμπροσθεν τῶν π., Rev.3:9 19:10, al.; ἐπὶ τοὺς π., Act.10:25. By meton., of a person in motion (Psa.119:101): Luk.1:79, Act.5:9, Rom.3:15 10:15, Heb.12:13
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4228 appears in 86 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- foot77
- footstool2
- of2
- for1
- from1
First verses
- Matthew 4:6And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Matthew 5:35Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
- Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- Matthew 10:14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
- Matthew 15:30And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
- Matthew 18:8Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
- Matthew 18:29And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 22:44The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
- Matthew 28:9And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
- Mark 5:22And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
- Mark 6:11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
- Mark 7:25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
- Mark 9:45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
- Mark 12:36For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 4:11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
- Luke 7:44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
- Luke 7:45Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
πούς, ὁ, ποδός, ποδί, πόδα
(not ποῦν, Thom.Mag.p.257 R.): dative plural ποσί, Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ποσσί (also [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 100 (Lyric poetry)), πόδεσσι,)] once πόδεσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 240 (Lyric poetry): _genitive_ and _dative_ dual ποδοῖν,)] Epic dialect ποδοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.537)]:—Doric dialect nominative πός (compare ἀρτίπος, πούλυπος, etc.) [Refs (“Lyrica Adespota” 72)], but πούς [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 2.34 (perhaps Hellenistic))]; πῶς· πός, ὑπὸ Δωριέων, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] (perhaps πός· πούς, ὑ.Δ.); Laconian dialect πόρ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] (on the accent see Hdn.Gr. 2.921, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 134.24))]:—foot, both of men and beasts, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212, 8.339 (both _plural_), etc.)]; in plural, also, a bird's talons, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.526)]; arms or feelers of a polypus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 524)]: properly the foot from the ankle down wards, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.386; ταρσὸς ποδός 11.377, 388)]; ξύλινος π., of an artificial foot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37)]: but also of the leg with the foot, as χείρ for the arm and hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.772, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.149, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 59.)]
2 foot as that with which one runs, πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.215, +others; or walks, τῷ δ᾽ ὑπὸ ποσσὶ μέγας πελεμίζετ᾽ Ὄλυμπος 8.443)]; frequently with reference to swiftness, περιγιγνόμεθ᾽ ἄλλων πύξ τε.. ἠδὲ πόδεσσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.103)]; ποσὶν ἐρίζειν to race on foot, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.325, compare 23.792; πόδεσσι πάντας ἐνίκα 20.410, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.261; ἀέθλια ποσσὶν ἄροντο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.124, etc.)]; ποδῶν τιμά, αἴγλα, ἀρετά, ὁρμά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.15, 13.36, “P.” 10.23, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 9.20; ἅμιλλαν ἐπόνει ποδοῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 213 (Lyric poetry): the _dative_ ποσί)] (ποσσί, πόδεσσι) is added to many Verbs denoting motion, π. βήσετο, παρέδραμον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.389, 23.636; π. θέειν, πηδᾶν, σκαίρειν, πλίσσεσθαι, [prev. work] 622, 21.269, 18.572, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.318; ὀρχεῖσθαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 3; ἔρχεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.39; πάρος ποσὶν οὖδας ἱκέσθαι 8.376; νέρθε δὲ ποσσὶν ἤϊε μακρὰ βιβάς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212)]; also emphatically with Verbs denoting to trample or tread upon, πόσσι καταστείβοισι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 94; ἐπεμβῆναι ποδί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 456)]; πόδα βαίνειν, see at {βαίνω} [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.4)]; πόδα τιθέναι to journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 1100: _metaphorically_, νόστιμον ναῦς ἐκίνησεν πόδα)] started on its homeward way, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 940 (Lyric poetry); νεῶν λῦσαι ποθοῦσιν οἴκαδ᾽.. πόδα [prev. work] 1020)]; χειρῶν ἔκβαλλον ὀρείους πόδας ναός, i. e. oars, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 102)]; φωνὴ τῶν π. τοῦ ὑετοῦ sound of the pattering of rain, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.18.41.)]
3 as a point of measurement, ἐς πόδας ἐκ κεφαλῆς from head to foot, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.353; ἐκ κεφαλῆς ἐς πόδας ἄκρους 16.640; and reversely, ἐκ ποδῶν δ᾽ ἄνω.. εἰς ἄκρον κάρα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 169; ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν ἐς τὴν κεφαλήν σοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 650; also ἐκ τριχὸς ἄχρι ποδῶν “Anthologia Graeca” 5.193 (3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus or 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus); ἐς κορυφὰν ἐκ ποδός [prev. work] 7.388 (from Bianor).)]
4 πρόσθε ποδός or ποδῶν, προπάροιθε ποδῶν, just before one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.877, 21.601, 13.205; τὸ πρὸ ποδὸς.. χρῆμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).13; αὐτὰ τὰ πρὸ τῶν ποδῶν ὁρᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.4, compare “An.” 4.6.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432d.)]
4.b παρά or πὰρ ποδός off-hand, at once, ἀνελέσθαι πὰρ ποδός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 282; γνόντα τὸ πὰρ ποδός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.60, compare 10.62; πὰρ ποδί)]close at hand, [Refs ([prev. author] “O.” 1.74)]; but παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσε θυμός sank to their feet, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.280; παρὰ πόδα)]in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 838 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242a)]; close behind, Νέμεσις δέ γε πὰρ πόδας (to be read πόδα) βαίνει Prov. cited in [Refs (10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]; also παρὰ πόδας immediately afterwards [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.35.3, 5.26.13, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.272; παρὰ π. οἱ ἔλεγχοι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 13, compare 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 2.115 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ καὶ παρὰ πόδας at his very feet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174a; περὶ τῶν παρὰ πόδας καὶ τῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς [prev. work]c; τὸ πλησίον καὶ παρὰ π. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cal.” 1.)]
4.c ἐν ποσί in one's way, close at hand, τὸν ἐν π. γινόμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.79, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32; τἀν ποσὶν κακά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1327, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 397; τοὐν ποσὶν κακόν [prev. author] Alcaeus739; τὴν ἐν ποσὶ [κώμην] αἱρεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97; τὰ ἐν ποσὶν ἀγνοεῖν)]everyday matters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175b, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1263a18, etc.)]
4.d τὸ πρὸς ποσί, ={τὸ ἐν ποσί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 130.)]
4.e all these phrases are opposed to ἐκ ποδῶν out of the way, far off, written ἐκποδών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.35, etc.; also, βίαια πάντ᾽ ἐκ ποδὸς ἐρύσαις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.67.)]
5 to denote close pursuit, ἐκ ποδὸς ἕπεσθαι follow in the track, i.e. close behind, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.68.1, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.57, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.33, etc.; ἐκ ποδῶν διώξαντες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 11.)]
5.b in earlier writers κατὰ πόδας on the heels of a person, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.98, 8.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.20, LXX.Gen.49.19 (also κατὰ πόδα ὑπολαβεῖν)]on the moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 243d))]; ἡ κατὰ πόδας ἡμέρα the very next day, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.12.1 (but κατὰ πόδας αἱρεῖν)] catch it running, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.40, compare “Mem.” 2.6.9): with _genitive_ _person_, κατὰ πόδας τινὸς ἐλαύνειν, ἰέναι,)] march, come close at his heels, on his track, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.89, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.64)]; τῇ κατὰ π. ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ἐκκλησίας on the day immediately after it, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.45.5; κατὰ π. τῆς μάχης 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.157J., etc.)]
6 various phrases:
6.a ἀνὰ πόδα backwards, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
6.b ἐπὶ πόδα backwards facing the enemy, ἐπὶ π. ἀναχωρεῖν, ἀνάγειν, ἀναχάζεσθαι, to retire without turning to fly, leisurely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.32, “Cyr.” 3.3.69, 7.1.34, etc.; also ἐπὶ πόδας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 12)]; but γίνεται ἡ ἔξοδος οἷον ἐπὶ πόδας the offspring is as it were born feetforemost, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 752b14.)]
6.c περὶ πόδα, properly of a shoe, round the foot, i.e. fitting exactly, ὡς ἔστι μοι τὸ χρῆμα τοῦτο περὶ πόδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 197, compare 129: with _dative_, ὁρᾷς ὡς ἐμμελὴς ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ περὶ πόδα τῇ ἱστορίᾳ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 14, compare “Ind.” 10, “Pseudol.” 23.)]
6.d ὡς ποδῶνἔχει as he is off for feet, i. e. as quick as he can, ὡς ποδῶν εἶχον [τάχιστα] ἐβοήθεον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.116; ἐδίωκον ὡς ποδῶν ἕκαστος εἶχον [prev. author] 9.59; φευκτέον ὡς ἔχει ποδῶν ἕκαστος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 507d; so, σοῦσθε.. ὅπως ποδῶν [ἔχετε] 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 837 (Lyric poetry).)]
6.e ἔξω τινὸς πόδα ἔχειν keep one's foot out of a thing, i. e. be clear of it, ἔξω κομίζων πηλοῦ πόδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 697; πημάτων ἔξω πόδα ἔχει [prev. author] “Pr.” 265; ἐκτὸς κλαυμάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1260; ἔξω πραγμάτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 109: without a _genitive_, ἐκτὸς ἔχειν πόδα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.289: opposed to εἰς ἄντλον ἐμβήσῃ πόδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 168; ἐν τούτῳ πεδίλῳ.. πόδ᾽ ἔχων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.8.)]
6.f ἀμφοῖν ποδοῖν, etc., to denote energetic action, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 35, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.78; συνέχευε ποσὶν καὶ χερσὶν 15.364; χερσίν τε ποσίν τε καὶ σθένει 20.360; τιμωρήσειν χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.115, compare 3.109)]; τερπωλῆς ἐπέβημεν ὅλῳ ποδί with all the foot, i.e. entirely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1166, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 13.19 (probably); καταφεύγειν ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ὥσπερ ἐκ δυοῖν ποδοῖν 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.117J.; opposed to οὐκ ἂν προβαίην τὸν πόδα τὸν ἕτερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 161; οὐκ ἂν ἔφασκεν ἐξελθεῖν οὐδὲ τὸν ἕτερον πόδα 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.82.)]
6.g τὴν ὑπὸ πόδα [κατάστασιν] just below them, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.68.9)]; ὑπὸ πόδας τίθεσθαι trample under foot, scorn, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1097c)]; οἱ ὑπὸ πόδα those next below them (in rank), [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 25.2)]; ὑπὸ πόδα χωρεῖν recede, decline, of strength, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus)] middle cited in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus (?) 21.16.)]
6.h for ὀρθῷ ποδί, see at {ὀρθός} [Refs (II.1.)]
6.k ἁλιεῖς ἀπὸ ποδός probably fishermen who fish from the land, not from boats, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 221.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD))]; ποτίσαι ἀπὸ ποδός perhaps irrigate by the feet (of oxen turning the irrigation-wheel), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PRyl.” 157.21 (2nd c.AD))]; τόπον.. ἀπὸ ποδὸς ἐξηρτισμένον uncertain meaning in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POsl.” 55.11 (2nd-3rd c.AD).)]
1 ἀγγεῖον.. τρήματα ἐκ τῶν ὑπὸ ποδὸς ἔχον round the bottom, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.72.)]
7 πούς τινος, as periphrastic for a person as coming, etc., σὺν πατρὸς μολὼν ποδί, i.e. σὺν πατρί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 661; παρθένου δέχου πόδα [prev. author] “Or.” 1217, compare “Hec.” 977, “HF” 336; χρόνου πόδα [prev. author] “Ba.” 889 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 100)]; also ἐξ ἑνὸς ποδός, i.e. μόνος ὤν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 91)]; οἱ δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡσύχου π., i.e. οἱ ἡσύχως ζῶντες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 217.)]
II metaphorically, of things, foot, lowest part, especially foot of a hill, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.824, 20.59 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.36, etc.)]; of a table, couch, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 530, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.16, etc.)]; compare πέζ; of the side strokes at the foot of the letter Ω, Callias cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 10.454a)]; ={ποδεών}[Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.1, ἀσκοῦ.. λῦσαι π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 679.)]
II.2 in a ship, πόδες are the two lower corners of the sail, or the ropes fastened therelo, by which the sails are tightened or slackened, sheets [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (ποδεών 11.4), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.260)]; χαλᾶν πόδα ease off the sheet, as is done when a squall is coming, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 707)]; τοῦ ποδὸς παρίει let go hold of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 436; ἐκδοῦναι ὀλίγον τοῦ ποδός 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 3)]; ἐκπετάσουσι πόδα ναός (with reference to the sail), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1135 (Lyric poetry): opposed to τεῖναι πόδα)] haul it tight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 715)]; ναῦς ἐνταθεῖσα ποδί a ship with her sheet close hauled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 706; κὰδ᾽ δ᾽.. λαῖφος ἐρυσσάμενοι τανύοντο ἐς πόδας ἀμφοτέρους 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.932; ἱστία.. ἐτάνυσσαν ὑπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι πόδεσσι 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 9.438.)]
II.2.b perhaps of the rudder or steering-paddle, αἰεὶ γὰρ πόδα νηὸς ἐνώμων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.32 (cf. Scholia (at [prev. work])); πὰρ ποδὶ ναός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.55.)]
III a foot, as a measure of length, = [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4 palms (παλασταί) or 6 fingers, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.149, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 82c, etc.)]
IV foot in Prosody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1323 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 400a, 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.34 M., 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 3.1, etc.)]; so of a metrical phrase or passage, ἔκμετρα καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸν π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 18)]; of a long passage declaimed in one breath, κήρυκες ὅταν τὸν καλούμενον πόδα μέλλωσιν ἐρεῖν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.459, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 65, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.91.)]
V boundary stone, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator “fragment” 27)]. (Cf. Latin pes, Gothic fotus, etc. 'foot'; related to πέδον as noted by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 706a33.))]
(not ποῦν, Thom.Mag.p.257 R.): dative plural ποσί, Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ποσσί (also [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 100 (Lyric poetry)), πόδεσσι,)] once πόδεσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 240 (Lyric poetry): _genitive_ and _dative_ dual ποδοῖν,)] Epic dialect ποδοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.537)]:—Doric dialect nominative πός (compare ἀρτίπος, πούλυπος, etc.) [Refs (“Lyrica Adespota” 72)], but πούς [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 2.34 (perhaps Hellenistic))]; πῶς· πός, ὑπὸ Δωριέων, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] (perhaps πός· πούς, ὑ.Δ.); Laconian dialect πόρ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] (on the accent see Hdn.Gr. 2.921, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 134.24))]:—foot, both of men and beasts, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212, 8.339 (both _plural_), etc.)]; in plural, also, a bird's talons, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.526)]; arms or feelers of a polypus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 524)]: properly the foot from the ankle down wards, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.386; ταρσὸς ποδός 11.377, 388)]; ξύλινος π., of an artificial foot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37)]: but also of the leg with the foot, as χείρ for the arm and hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.772, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.149, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 59.)]
2 foot as that with which one runs, πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.215, +others; or walks, τῷ δ᾽ ὑπὸ ποσσὶ μέγας πελεμίζετ᾽ Ὄλυμπος 8.443)]; frequently with reference to swiftness, περιγιγνόμεθ᾽ ἄλλων πύξ τε.. ἠδὲ πόδεσσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.103)]; ποσὶν ἐρίζειν to race on foot, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.325, compare 23.792; πόδεσσι πάντας ἐνίκα 20.410, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.261; ἀέθλια ποσσὶν ἄροντο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.124, etc.)]; ποδῶν τιμά, αἴγλα, ἀρετά, ὁρμά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.15, 13.36, “P.” 10.23, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 9.20; ἅμιλλαν ἐπόνει ποδοῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 213 (Lyric poetry): the _dative_ ποσί)] (ποσσί, πόδεσσι) is added to many Verbs denoting motion, π. βήσετο, παρέδραμον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.389, 23.636; π. θέειν, πηδᾶν, σκαίρειν, πλίσσεσθαι, [prev. work] 622, 21.269, 18.572, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.318; ὀρχεῖσθαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 3; ἔρχεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.39; πάρος ποσὶν οὖδας ἱκέσθαι 8.376; νέρθε δὲ ποσσὶν ἤϊε μακρὰ βιβάς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212)]; also emphatically with Verbs denoting to trample or tread upon, πόσσι καταστείβοισι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 94; ἐπεμβῆναι ποδί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 456)]; πόδα βαίνειν, see at {βαίνω} [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.4)]; πόδα τιθέναι to journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 1100: _metaphorically_, νόστιμον ναῦς ἐκίνησεν πόδα)] started on its homeward way, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 940 (Lyric poetry); νεῶν λῦσαι ποθοῦσιν οἴκαδ᾽.. πόδα [prev. work] 1020)]; χειρῶν ἔκβαλλον ὀρείους πόδας ναός, i. e. oars, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 102)]; φωνὴ τῶν π. τοῦ ὑετοῦ sound of the pattering of rain, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.18.41.)]
3 as a point of measurement, ἐς πόδας ἐκ κεφαλῆς from head to foot, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.353; ἐκ κεφαλῆς ἐς πόδας ἄκρους 16.640; and reversely, ἐκ ποδῶν δ᾽ ἄνω.. εἰς ἄκρον κάρα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 169; ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν ἐς τὴν κεφαλήν σοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 650; also ἐκ τριχὸς ἄχρι ποδῶν “Anthologia Graeca” 5.193 (3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus or 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus); ἐς κορυφὰν ἐκ ποδός [prev. work] 7.388 (from Bianor).)]
4 πρόσθε ποδός or ποδῶν, προπάροιθε ποδῶν, just before one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.877, 21.601, 13.205; τὸ πρὸ ποδὸς.. χρῆμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).13; αὐτὰ τὰ πρὸ τῶν ποδῶν ὁρᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.4, compare “An.” 4.6.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432d.)]
4.b παρά or πὰρ ποδός off-hand, at once, ἀνελέσθαι πὰρ ποδός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 282; γνόντα τὸ πὰρ ποδός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.60, compare 10.62; πὰρ ποδί)]close at hand, [Refs ([prev. author] “O.” 1.74)]; but παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσε θυμός sank to their feet, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.280; παρὰ πόδα)]in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 838 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242a)]; close behind, Νέμεσις δέ γε πὰρ πόδας (to be read πόδα) βαίνει Prov. cited in [Refs (10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]; also παρὰ πόδας immediately afterwards [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.35.3, 5.26.13, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.272; παρὰ π. οἱ ἔλεγχοι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 13, compare 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 2.115 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ καὶ παρὰ πόδας at his very feet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174a; περὶ τῶν παρὰ πόδας καὶ τῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς [prev. work]c; τὸ πλησίον καὶ παρὰ π. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cal.” 1.)]
4.c ἐν ποσί in one's way, close at hand, τὸν ἐν π. γινόμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.79, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32; τἀν ποσὶν κακά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1327, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 397; τοὐν ποσὶν κακόν [prev. author] Alcaeus739; τὴν ἐν ποσὶ [κώμην] αἱρεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97; τὰ ἐν ποσὶν ἀγνοεῖν)]everyday matters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175b, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1263a18, etc.)]
4.d τὸ πρὸς ποσί, ={τὸ ἐν ποσί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 130.)]
4.e all these phrases are opposed to ἐκ ποδῶν out of the way, far off, written ἐκποδών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.35, etc.; also, βίαια πάντ᾽ ἐκ ποδὸς ἐρύσαις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.67.)]
5 to denote close pursuit, ἐκ ποδὸς ἕπεσθαι follow in the track, i.e. close behind, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.68.1, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.57, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.33, etc.; ἐκ ποδῶν διώξαντες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 11.)]
5.b in earlier writers κατὰ πόδας on the heels of a person, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.98, 8.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.20, LXX.Gen.49.19 (also κατὰ πόδα ὑπολαβεῖν)]on the moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 243d))]; ἡ κατὰ πόδας ἡμέρα the very next day, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.12.1 (but κατὰ πόδας αἱρεῖν)] catch it running, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.40, compare “Mem.” 2.6.9): with _genitive_ _person_, κατὰ πόδας τινὸς ἐλαύνειν, ἰέναι,)] march, come close at his heels, on his track, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.89, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.64)]; τῇ κατὰ π. ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ἐκκλησίας on the day immediately after it, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.45.5; κατὰ π. τῆς μάχης 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.157J., etc.)]
6 various phrases:
6.a ἀνὰ πόδα backwards, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
6.b ἐπὶ πόδα backwards facing the enemy, ἐπὶ π. ἀναχωρεῖν, ἀνάγειν, ἀναχάζεσθαι, to retire without turning to fly, leisurely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.32, “Cyr.” 3.3.69, 7.1.34, etc.; also ἐπὶ πόδας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 12)]; but γίνεται ἡ ἔξοδος οἷον ἐπὶ πόδας the offspring is as it were born feetforemost, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 752b14.)]
6.c περὶ πόδα, properly of a shoe, round the foot, i.e. fitting exactly, ὡς ἔστι μοι τὸ χρῆμα τοῦτο περὶ πόδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 197, compare 129: with _dative_, ὁρᾷς ὡς ἐμμελὴς ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ περὶ πόδα τῇ ἱστορίᾳ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 14, compare “Ind.” 10, “Pseudol.” 23.)]
6.d ὡς ποδῶνἔχει as he is off for feet, i. e. as quick as he can, ὡς ποδῶν εἶχον [τάχιστα] ἐβοήθεον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.116; ἐδίωκον ὡς ποδῶν ἕκαστος εἶχον [prev. author] 9.59; φευκτέον ὡς ἔχει ποδῶν ἕκαστος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 507d; so, σοῦσθε.. ὅπως ποδῶν [ἔχετε] 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 837 (Lyric poetry).)]
6.e ἔξω τινὸς πόδα ἔχειν keep one's foot out of a thing, i. e. be clear of it, ἔξω κομίζων πηλοῦ πόδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 697; πημάτων ἔξω πόδα ἔχει [prev. author] “Pr.” 265; ἐκτὸς κλαυμάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1260; ἔξω πραγμάτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 109: without a _genitive_, ἐκτὸς ἔχειν πόδα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.289: opposed to εἰς ἄντλον ἐμβήσῃ πόδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 168; ἐν τούτῳ πεδίλῳ.. πόδ᾽ ἔχων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.8.)]
6.f ἀμφοῖν ποδοῖν, etc., to denote energetic action, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 35, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.78; συνέχευε ποσὶν καὶ χερσὶν 15.364; χερσίν τε ποσίν τε καὶ σθένει 20.360; τιμωρήσειν χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.115, compare 3.109)]; τερπωλῆς ἐπέβημεν ὅλῳ ποδί with all the foot, i.e. entirely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1166, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 13.19 (probably); καταφεύγειν ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ὥσπερ ἐκ δυοῖν ποδοῖν 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.117J.; opposed to οὐκ ἂν προβαίην τὸν πόδα τὸν ἕτερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 161; οὐκ ἂν ἔφασκεν ἐξελθεῖν οὐδὲ τὸν ἕτερον πόδα 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.82.)]
6.g τὴν ὑπὸ πόδα [κατάστασιν] just below them, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.68.9)]; ὑπὸ πόδας τίθεσθαι trample under foot, scorn, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1097c)]; οἱ ὑπὸ πόδα those next below them (in rank), [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 25.2)]; ὑπὸ πόδα χωρεῖν recede, decline, of strength, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus)] middle cited in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus (?) 21.16.)]
6.h for ὀρθῷ ποδί, see at {ὀρθός} [Refs (II.1.)]
6.k ἁλιεῖς ἀπὸ ποδός probably fishermen who fish from the land, not from boats, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 221.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD))]; ποτίσαι ἀπὸ ποδός perhaps irrigate by the feet (of oxen turning the irrigation-wheel), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PRyl.” 157.21 (2nd c.AD))]; τόπον.. ἀπὸ ποδὸς ἐξηρτισμένον uncertain meaning in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POsl.” 55.11 (2nd-3rd c.AD).)]
1 ἀγγεῖον.. τρήματα ἐκ τῶν ὑπὸ ποδὸς ἔχον round the bottom, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.72.)]
7 πούς τινος, as periphrastic for a person as coming, etc., σὺν πατρὸς μολὼν ποδί, i.e. σὺν πατρί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 661; παρθένου δέχου πόδα [prev. author] “Or.” 1217, compare “Hec.” 977, “HF” 336; χρόνου πόδα [prev. author] “Ba.” 889 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 100)]; also ἐξ ἑνὸς ποδός, i.e. μόνος ὤν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 91)]; οἱ δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡσύχου π., i.e. οἱ ἡσύχως ζῶντες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 217.)]
II metaphorically, of things, foot, lowest part, especially foot of a hill, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.824, 20.59 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.36, etc.)]; of a table, couch, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 530, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.16, etc.)]; compare πέζ; of the side strokes at the foot of the letter Ω, Callias cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 10.454a)]; ={ποδεών}[Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.1, ἀσκοῦ.. λῦσαι π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 679.)]
II.2 in a ship, πόδες are the two lower corners of the sail, or the ropes fastened therelo, by which the sails are tightened or slackened, sheets [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (ποδεών 11.4), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.260)]; χαλᾶν πόδα ease off the sheet, as is done when a squall is coming, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 707)]; τοῦ ποδὸς παρίει let go hold of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 436; ἐκδοῦναι ὀλίγον τοῦ ποδός 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 3)]; ἐκπετάσουσι πόδα ναός (with reference to the sail), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1135 (Lyric poetry): opposed to τεῖναι πόδα)] haul it tight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 715)]; ναῦς ἐνταθεῖσα ποδί a ship with her sheet close hauled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 706; κὰδ᾽ δ᾽.. λαῖφος ἐρυσσάμενοι τανύοντο ἐς πόδας ἀμφοτέρους 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.932; ἱστία.. ἐτάνυσσαν ὑπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι πόδεσσι 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 9.438.)]
II.2.b perhaps of the rudder or steering-paddle, αἰεὶ γὰρ πόδα νηὸς ἐνώμων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.32 (cf. Scholia (at [prev. work])); πὰρ ποδὶ ναός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.55.)]
III a foot, as a measure of length, = [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4 palms (παλασταί) or 6 fingers, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.149, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 82c, etc.)]
IV foot in Prosody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1323 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 400a, 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.34 M., 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 3.1, etc.)]; so of a metrical phrase or passage, ἔκμετρα καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸν π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 18)]; of a long passage declaimed in one breath, κήρυκες ὅταν τὸν καλούμενον πόδα μέλλωσιν ἐρεῖν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.459, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 65, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.91.)]
V boundary stone, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator “fragment” 27)]. (Cf. Latin pes, Gothic fotus, etc. 'foot'; related to πέδον as noted by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 706a33.))]