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ἄντυξ , υ^γος, ἡ,
A.edge or rim of anything round or curved; and so,
I. in Hom. (only in Il.):
1. rim of round shield, 11.6.118, al., E.Rh.373 (lyr.).
2. rail round front of chariot, “ἐξ ἄντυγος ἡνία τείνας” 5.262,322; “δοιαὶ δὲ περίδρομοι ἄντυγές εἰσι” 5.728; “καὶ ἄντυγες αἱ περὶ δίφρον” 11.535: in pl. also S.Aj.1030, Pl.Tht.207a: in sg., “μάρπτει δὲ . . ἡνίας ἀπ᾽ ἄντυγος” E.Hipp.1188.
II. post-Hom.:
1. pl., the chariot itself, S.El.746, E.Ph.1193: sg., “κατ᾽ ἄντυγα Νυκτὸς ὀπαδοί” Theoc.2.166, cf. Jul.Or.3.122b.
2. bridge of the lyre, E. Hipp.1135(lyr.).
3. orbit of a planet, h.Hom.8.8, Procl.H.2.17; vault of heaven, “ἄ. οὐρανίη” AP9.806, cf. 11.292 (Pall.); “ἄ. αἰθερίη” IGRom.4.607; orb, circle of the world, Nonn.D.38.108; ἄ. ἡμίτομος . . σελάνας the disk of the half-moon, Mosch.2.88.
4. in Nonnus, of the curve of the body, ἄ. μαζοῦ, μηρῶν, D.1.348, 15.228, so perh. in Herod.8.29.
5. outermost tier, in a theatre, ἡ ἐσχάτη ἄ. τοῦ “θεάτρου” Eun.VSp.489B.—Poet. word, used by Pl.l.c., Luc.D Deor. 25.2, in signf. 1.2, cf. also 11.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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