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ἄμαξα

ἄμαξα, a wagon

ἄμαξα [ᾰ], Att. ἅμαξα, ἡ, (v. ἄξων) prop.
  • frame-work, ‘châssis’ of a four-wheeled wagon (ἀπήνη), opp. πείρινς (body), Il. 24.263 sqq., cf. Od. 6.37, al.:—also, of the whole wagon, ib. 260, cf. Hes. Op. 453, Hdt. 1.31, Th. 1.93, etc.; of the wagons of the Scythians, Hdt. 4.114, 121; βοῦς ὑφʼ ἁμάξης draught-oxen, X. An. 6.4.22, 25.
      • 2 c. gen., wagon-load, πετρῶν, σίτου, X. An. 4.7.10, Cyr. 2.4.18; ἐλλεβόρου Pl. Euthd. 299b; τρισσῶν ἁμαξῶν βάρος E. Cyc. 385, cf. 473.
      • 3 prov., ἡ ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν (sc. ἕλκει) ‘the cart before the horse’, Luc. DMort. 16[6].2; ἐξ ἁμάξης ὑβρίζειν, of abusive ribaldry, such as was allowed to the women as they were taken in wagons to the Eleusinian mysteries, Sch. D. 18.122, cf. Ar. Pl. 1014, Men. 396; βοᾶς . . ὥσπερ ἐξ ἁμάξης D. l.c.
    • II carriage of a plough, Hes. Op. 426, 453.
    • III = Ἄρκτος, the Great Bear, Il. 18.487, Od. 5.273, Call. Iamb. 1.119, etc.
    • IV metaph., of a ship, A. Fr. 451B.
    • V = ἁμαξιτός, AP 7.479 (Theodorid.).

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