πτέρνη

A. heel, Il. 22.397, Hp.Il.cc., Arist. HA 494b7; under part of the heel, A. Ch. 209 (pl.); heel-bone, Gal. 2.776, al.: prov., εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε D. 7.45.

2. hoof, LXX Jd. 5.22.

3. heel of a shoe, Herod. 7.21, Phryn. PS p.69B.

4. footstep, LXX Ca. 1.8.

II. metaph., foot or lower part of anything, πύργων Lyc. 442; τῆς μηχανῆς Plb. 8.6.2; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.474f (but, waist of a ship, Hero *Stereom. 2.52).

2. butt-end of the ἀγκών of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 59.30,66.2; of a surgical machine, Orib. 49.4.9,al.

III. ham (mock Epicism formed from Lat. perna), Batr. 37; f.l. for πέρνα in Aët. 15.15, Paul.Aeg. 7.17.74 (πέρνα correctly in 4.32).