Tip-toe

Tip-toe
subs.
P. and V. ἄκρος πούς, V. ἄκρος δάκτυλος, ὁ.
On tiptoe: V. ἐπʼ ἄκρων (Soph., Aj. 1230), ἄκροισι δακτύλοισι (Eur., I. T. 266).
Tread on tap-toe: P. ἄκρῳ ποδὶ ἐπιβαίνειν (Plat., Lach. 183B).
Standing on tip-toe: V. ὄνυχας ἐπʼ ἄκρους στάς (Eur., El. 840).
Walking on tip-toe: V. ἐν δʼ ἄκροισι βὰς ποσί (Eur., Ion, 1166).
On the tip-toe of excitement, adj.: P. μετέωρος, ὀρθός.
All the rest of Greece was on the tip-toe of excitement at the conflict of the leading states: P. ἡ ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς πᾶσα μετέωρος ἦν συνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων (Thuc. 2, 8).
Be on the tip-toe of excitement, v.: Ar. and P. ἐπαίρεσθαι, P. αἰωρεῖσθαι, P. and V. ἀναπτεροῦσθαι. (Xen. also Ar.).

Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language. 2014.

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