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γωνία , ἡ,
A.corner, angle, Hdt.1.51, Pl.Men.84d, etc.; γ. ἐπίπεδος, στερεά, plane, solid angle, Euc.1 Def.8,11Def.11; αἱ πρὸς τῇ βάσει γ. the angles at the base, Id.1.5; ἡ ὑπὸ ΒΑΓ or ὑπὸ τῶν ΒΑΓ γ. the angle ΒΑΓ, Id.1.9,al.
2. metaph., corner, secluded spot, “ἐν γωνίᾳ ψιθυρίζειν” Pl.Grg.485d; “ἐν γ. πεπραγμένον” Act.Ap.26.26.
3. of the four quarters of the compass, Ptol.Tetr.29.
4. joint, Arist.PA 690a13.
II. joiner's square, Pl.Phlb.51c, Plu.Marc.19.
III. cutwater of a bridge, D.S.2.8.
IV. of persons, leader, chief, LXX 1 Ki.14.38. (Akin to γόνυ.）
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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