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|Full diacritics=ἔλυτρον
|Medium diacritics=ἔλυτρον
|Low diacritics=έλυτρον
|Capitals=ΕΛΥΤΡΟΝ
|Transliteration A=élytron
|Transliteration B=elytron
|Transliteration C=elytron
|Beta Code=e)/lutron
|Definition=τό, (εἰλύω) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">couering</b>: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">bow-case</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1043</span> (pl.); <b class="b2">sheath</b> of a spear, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>1120</span>; <b class="b2">mirror-case</b>, IG2.706<span class="title">A</span>b13; <b class="b3">χοᾶ ἐν ἐ</b>. ib.11 (2).219<span class="title">B</span>76 (Delos, iii B.C.); <b class="b2">case</b> of a shield, <span class="bibl">D.S.20.11</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">sheath</b> of the spinal cord, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>45</span>: the <b class="b2">shard</b> of a beetle's wing, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>532a23</span>; <b class="b2">shell</b> of a crab, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>9.43</span>; of the eye-<b class="b2">lids</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">de An.</span>421b29</span>; of the umbilical cord, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>586b23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">husk</b> or <b class="b2">capsule</b> of seeds, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.7.6</span>; the flowering <b class="b2">glume</b> of <b class="b3">ζέα δίκοκκος</b>, Dsc. 2.89. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">the body</b>, as being <b class="b2">the case</b> or <b class="b2">shell</b> of the soul, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>588e</span>, Poet. ap. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Demon.</span>44</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">reservoir for water</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.185</span>,<span class="bibl">4.173</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.2.27.7</span>, al.; <b class="b2">tank</b> for fish, <span class="bibl">Palaeph.27</span>. (Cf. Skt. <b class="b2">varútram</b> 'cloak', <b class="b2">varūtár-</b> 'protector'.) [ῠ Ar.l.c.]</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-0803.png Seite 803]] τό ([[ἐλύω]]), Hülle, Futteral; τὸ ἔξω [[ἔλυτρον]] Plat. Rep. IX, 588 e; τοῦ δόρατος Ar. Ach. 1120; τῶν ἀσπίδων D. Sic. 20, 11 u. Sp.; τοῦ ὕδατος, Wasserbehälter, Cisterne, Her. 1, 185; ὑδάτων 4, 173, vgl. 1, 185; – die Flügeldecke der Insekten, Arist. H. A. 4, 7; Poll. 2, 69; die Schale des Krebses, Ael. N. A. 9, 43; Hülfe, Schale von Früchten, Diosc. u. A.; der Körper als Hülle der Seele, Luc. Demon. 44.
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