1. placed sideways, slanting, aslant , Lat. obliquus, (Thucydides)

2. πλάγια, ων, τά, the sides , (Herdotus Historicus):—;in military sense, τοῖς πλαγίοις ἐπιέναι to attack the flanks , (Thucydides); εἰς τὰ πλ. παράγειν or παραπέμπειν to make an army file off right and left , (Xenophon Historicus); πλαγίους λαβεῖν τοὺς πολεμίους to take the enemy in flank , (Xenophon Historicus)

3. with Preps. in adverbial sense, εἰς πλάγιον obliquely , (Xenophon Historicus); εἰς τὰ πλάγια, opposite to εἰς τὸ ἀντίον, (Thucydides); ἐκ πλαγίου in flank , (Thucydides); κατὰ πλάγια (Xenophon Historicus)

4. metaphorically not straightforward, crooked, treacherous , φρένες (Pindar); πλάγια φρονεῖν (Euripides) (ML)