The corpus record

ζεύγλη

zeugle · ἡ

loop attached to the yoke

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

loop attached to the yoke

loop attached to the yoke (ζυγόν), through which the beasts’ heads were put, χαίτη ζεύγλης ἐξεριποῦσα παρὰ ζυγόν Il. 17.440; ἔζευξα . . ἐν ζυγοῖσι κνώδαλα ζεύγλαισι δουλεύοντα A. Pr. 463; ὑποδύντες ὑπὸ τὴν ζ. Hdt. 1.31; βόας ζεύγλᾳ πέλασσεν Pi. P. 4.227; ὑπάγειν τοὺς ἵππους τῇ ζ. Luc. DMar. 6.2.

= ζεῦγος I.1, BGU 1507 (iii B.C.).—Not found in good Att. Prose.

II cross-bar

cross-bar of the double rudder, E. Hel. 1536.

In the wild

ζεύγλαισι · zeuglaisi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 462–466
ζεύγλαισι · zeuglaisi Euripides, Helen *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 1001)
ζεύγλην · zeuglēn Herodotus, Histories 1.31.2 (DIORISIS sentence 198)
ζεύγλης · zeuglēs Iliad 17.440
ζεύγλης · zeuglēs Iliad 19.406

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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