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χελώνη

χελώνη, a tortoise

χελών-η, ἡ,
  • tortoise, h.Merc. 42,48, Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.47, 48; χ. χερσαία (cf. infr. 2) Arist. PA 671a28: prov. of insensibility, ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος Ar. V. 1292, cf. 429 (lyr.), S. Fr. 279, Luc. Vit.Auct. 9; of slowness, Plu. Comm.not. 2.1082e, Lib. Ep. 74.1, etc.
      • 2 ποντιὰς χ. turtle, Crates Com. 29; χ. θαλασσία Arist. l.c., cf. 540a29, Ael. VH 1.6, Paus. 1.44.8.
    • II tortoise-shell, Ph. 2.478.
      • 2 sounding-board of lyre, Plu. An.procr. 2.1030b.
    • III pent-house or shed for protecting beseigers, χ. ξυλίνη X. HG 3.1.7, cf. Aen.Tact. 32.11; χ. χωστρίς, used to protect sappers and miners, Plb. 9.41.1, 10.31.8, Onos. 42.3; κριοφόρος, to cover the battering-ram, D.S. 20.48, etc., cf. App. Mith. 31.
        • b = Lat. testudo, overlapping shields, D.C. 49.30.
      • 2 a kind of frame or cradle, on which heavy weights were moved by means of rollers underneath, Hero Mech. 3.1 (vol. ii p.294 Schmidt).
      • 3 footstool, Polem.Hist. 44, Hsch., Suid.
      • 4 coin bearing the impress of a tortoise, first coined at Aegina, Poll. 9.74, Hsch.
      • 5 pl., hillocks, LXX Ho. 12.11.
      • 6 tomb with arched roof, JHS 10.82 (Patara).
      • 7 a kind of bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.66 tit., Sor. Fasc. 56.
      • 8 part of a surgical machine, from its slow uniform motion, Orib. 49.4.45.
      • 9 = χελώνιον III, IG ΙΙ(2).159A 26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).

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