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πέζα^ , ης, ἡ, said to be Dor. and Arc. for πούς, Gal.19.129, cf. Ruf. ap. Orib.25.1.56 ;
A.“τῶν ἄπο πέζαν ἐκτὸς ἔχων” Androm. ap. Gal.14.37 ; but distd. from it as the instep by Poll.2.192 ; “πρὸς πέζῃ ποδός” Paus. 5.11.2, cf. AP12.176 (Strat.) ; “οἱ πόδες οἰδίσκονται καὶ αἱ πέζαι μάλιστα” Hp.Mul.2.169.
2. περίσφυροσπ., = πέδη1.2, AP6.211 (Leon.).
II. metaph., bottom, end of a body, ἐπὶ ῥυμῷ πέζῃ ἔπι πρώτῃ on the pole at the far end, Il.24.272.
2. edge, border of a garment, A.R. 4.46, AP6.287 (Antip.), J.AJ3.7.4, Hld.3.3 ; of the sea, strand, bank, “Ἐλευσῖνος παρὰ πέζαν” Hermesian.7.17 ; of a country, coastline, “π. ἠπείροιο” A.R.4.1258, cf. D.P.61 ; “εἰς ὁδοῦ π. στενήν” Luc. Trag.238 ; of a mountain, D.P.535, App.Pun.103.
III. round fishing-net, Opp. H.3.83.
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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