ταρςός

A. frame of wicker-work, crate, flat basket, for drying cheeses on, ταρσοὶ μὲν τυρῶν βρῖθον Od. 9.219, cf.Theoc. 11.37: generally, basket, Ar. Nu. 226.

2. mat of reeds, such as were built into brickwork to bind it together, ταρσοὶ καλάμων Hdt. 1.179, SIG 245 G 13 (Delph., iv B.C.); τ. καλάμου Th. 2.76.

3. mass of matted roots, Thphr. CP 3.7.2.

II. of various broad flat surfaces, resembling a ταρσός 1.1, as,

1. τ. ποδός flat of the foot. the part between the toes and the heel, Il. 11.377,388, cf. Hdt. 9.37, Hp. Fract. 9, Diog.Apoll. 6 (but also, palm of the hand, ibid.); οὐλὴ ταρσῷ ἀριστερῷ PMich.Teb. 121r111 i3 (i A.D.): generally, foot, Anacreont. 35.4, Opp. C. 3.470, AP 5.26 (Rufin.), 9.653 (Agath.).

b. palm of the hand, Ruf. Onom. 81, Sor. Fract. 22; v. supr.11.1a.

c. ankle, Gal. UP 3.6; but distd. from σφυρόν, Sor. 1.84.

2. τοὺς τ. τῶν κωπέων the rows of oars on the sides of ships, Hdt. 8.12; so τοὺς τ. alone, Th. 7.40: sg., IG 22.1628.590, Plb. 1.50.3; ὁ δεξιὸς τ. τῆς νεώς Id. 16.3.12: sg., oar, E. IT 1346.

3. τ. πτερύγων flat of the outstretched wing, AP 12.144 (Mel.), cf. Babr. 72.9; ὁ τ. τῶν πτερῶν Ael. NA 2.1: abs., wing, Anacreont. 9, AP 9.287 (Apollonid.), etc.; in Prose, D.H. 4.63: of a peacock's tail, Mosch. 2.60; ταρσοί feathers, D.S. 2.50.

4. τ. ὀδόντων the row of teeth in a saw, Opp. H. 5.202.

5. Pan's pipe, ταρσῷ Πὰν ὁ μελιζόμενος Epigr.Gr. 781.10 (Cnidus).

6. edge of the eyelid and its lashes, Hp. Ep. 23, Poll. 2.69, Gal. UP 10.7.