ας (ἡ) muscles lombaires, reins, HPC. Art. 810, etc. ; SPT. 2Reg. 2, 23, etc.

Étym. cf. ψοιά et ψύα.

or ψύα, ἡ, more freq. in pl. ψόαι or ψύαι, muscles of the loins (cf. ἀλώπηξ IV), Hp. Art. 45 (ψύας codd. MV), Nat. Hom. 11 (ψόας), cf. Oss. 18 (ψύαν), Morb. Sacr. 3 (ψύην), and LXX Le. 3.9, 2 Ki. 2.23, Ps. 37 (38).8, al. ; ψύαι Euphro 7, Clearch. 72, Aret. CD 2.3 (but ψόαι Id. SD 2.3); acc. pl. ψοιάς (v.l. ψύας, ψυάς) Polybus ap. Arist. HA 512b21; ψόα LXX Le. l.c. and three times in cod. Vat. of 2 Ki. (cod. Alex. ψοία)· ψύαι Ps.-l.c. (corrupted to ψυχή); acc. pl. ψόας in Bilabel Ὀψαρτ. p. 11; — Hsch. has ψίαι, ψειαί, and ψυῖαι, also φοῦαι and ψύλλες ; the word in all its spellings is declared un-Attic by Phryn. 269, Phot. ; the form ψύη was recognized by Irenaeus ap. Orion. col. 168. [υ in ψύαι, Euphro l.c. ; but υ in an Epic Fragm. in Ath. 9.399a, ψύας ἔγχεϊ νύξε, where perh. ψοίας shd. be written.]

ἡ, auch ψοιά, gew. im plur. ψόαι, ψοιαί, αἱ, die Lendengegend, das Lendenfleisch, bis in die Gegend der Nieren, bes. die innern Lendenmuskeln, richtiger ψύα, s. Lobeck Phryn. 300 ff.

a flank (MT)