ἵξις

ἵξις, Ion. ἴξις, εως, ἡ, (ἵκω)

• coming, E. Tr. 396 (prob.l.); οὐ πτύσις ἀλλʼ ἀναγωγὴ καλέεται, τῆς ἄνω ἴξιος [τῆς ὁδοῦ] τοὔνομα ἔχουσα Aret. SA 2.2; οἶνος ὠκὺς ἐς τὴν ἄνω ἴξιν Id. CA 2.4.
• • • 2 passage through, οὐδαμῆ . . κατὰ τὴν τοῦ θώρηκος ἴ. Hp. Acut. 15 (but perh. simply, ‘at no point in the θ.’) ; ἵξιν παρέχεσθαι allow free passage, dub. in Sch. Epicur. Ep. 1 p.8 U. (fort. εἶξιν).
  • II direction, straight line, esp. vertical line, καθημένῳ πόδες ἐς τὴν ἄνω ἴ. κατʼ ἰθὺ γούνασι his feet when he is seated should be vertically opposite his knees, Hp. Off. 3; ἐπιδεῖν δεξιὰ ἐπʼ ἀριστερά, ἀριστερὰ ἐπὶ δεξιά, πλὴν κεφαλῆς· ταύτην δὲ κατʼ ἴξιν vertically, ib. 9; βάλλεσθαι χρὴ τὸ ὀθόνιον κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ἴ. τοῦ ἕλκεος directly over the wound, Id. Fract. 26; τοὺς νάρθηκας . . μὴ κατὰ τὴν ἴ. τοῦ ἕλκεος προστιθέναι ibid.; ὁκόσα κοινωνεῖ τοῖσι τῆς κνήμης ὀστέοισι καὶ αὐτέῃ τῇ ἴξει ib. 9 codd. (κατὰ τὴν ἴξιν Gal. 18(2).423; κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ἴ. Ermerins).
  • • 2 κατʼ ἴξιν c. gen., corresponding to, on the same side as, ἤλγησεν κατὰ βουβῶνα, σπληνὸς κατʼ ἴ., i.e. on the spleen or left side of the body, Hp. Epid. 1.4.3 [1.26.γʹ], cf. 4.35, 37, Art. 33, Fract. 16, 18, Mul. 1.17; τῶν ὀδόντων τῶν τε ἄνω καὶ τῶν κάτω κατʼ ἴ. Id. Art. 31; = ex ipsa parte, Cass.Fel. 37; ἐν πυρετοῖσι ἀπὸ σπληνὸς καὶ ἥπατος διὰ ῥινῶν αἱμορραγέουσι, κατʼ ἴ. τοῦ σπλάγχνου τοῦ μυκτῆρος ῥέοντος the nostril corresponding to the organ in question, Aret. SA 2.2; ἡ κατʼ ἴ. κληίς the corresponding (i.e. liver or right side) collarbone, ib. 2.7, cf. CA 1.10; κατὰ τὴν ὄπισθεν ἴ. at the back of the leg, Hp. Art. 60.
    • 3 more generally, in line with, κατʼ ἴ. τοῦ πυγαίου ποιησάμενον τὴν σανίδα ib. 75; κατʼ ἴ. τῇ ἐντομῇ τῇ ἐς τὸν τοῖχον ib. 47.