The headword, a neuter noun, can indeed bear both the literal and figurative senses illustrated here: see LSJ s.v.
[1] Up to this point = Synagoge epsilon732; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1705. Probably originating from commentary either to Homer, Iliad 17.136 (web address 1), or Aristophanes, Frogs 823 (web address 2, and cf. alpha 1499). See the scholia to both passages; also Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 74.2; Hesychius epsilon5192; Etymologicum Magnum 364.5.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.63.2 (author unknown), of Diogenes; cf. nu 146. The Anthologia Palatina notes that the author of this epigram is a)de/spoton, anonymous; yet epigrams with similar themes, but nonetheless attributable, are extant, such as Greek Anthology 7.67 (alpha 3638; cf. Gow and Page (Hellenistic Epigrams, 126)) and Greek Anthology 7.68 (kappa 288; cf. Gow and Page (Garland of Philip, 408-409)); cf. Dübner (285). On Diogenes the Cynic, the ascetic skeptical philosopher, cf. delta 1141, delta 1143, and delta 1144.