περόνη

A. pin or tongue of a buckle or brooch, buckle or brooch itself, Il. 5.425, Od. 19.226,256, E. Ph. 805 (lyr.); ἐν δ’ ἄρ’ ἔσαν [πέπλῳ] περόναι δυοκαίδεκα πᾶσαι χρύσειαι Od. 18.293, cf. IG 12.369.11, 22.1388.20; used for wounding, Hdt. 5.87, S. OT 1269.

2. pin for twisting ropes round, on board ship, A.R. 1.567.

3. pivot of door-post, περόνῃσιν ἀρηρότε Parm. 1.20; of a machine, Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.24.1, al.

4. linchpin, Parth. 6.4.

5. rivet, bolt, π. χαλκαῖ Inscr.Délos 504.12 (iii B. C.); π. κεφαλωτή Ph. Bel. 76.3.

b. rivet in the Roman pilum, Plu. Mar. 25.

II. small bone of the arm, radius, Hp. Loc.Hom. 6 (dub.), Oss. 3: more freq. of the leg, fibula, Gal. UP 3.9, al., v. l. in Hp. Art. 62.

2. ligament below the knee of a horse, X. Eq. 1.5.

3. = ἐπίφυσις 2, Hp. Loc.Hom. 6.

4. pl., splint-bones, Poll. 2.191.

III. a kind of fish, Marc.Sid. 15 (pl.).