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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">carpenter's tool for drawing a circle</b>, like our <b class="b2">compasses</b>, prob. a pin at the end of a string, Lat. <b class="b2">tornus</b> (<span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>7.198</span>), <span class="bibl">Thgn.805</span>; <b class="b3">κυκλοτερὴς ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου</b> (of the representation of the earth in early maps) <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.36</span>; τροχὸς τόρνῳ γραφόμενος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1067</span> (perh. in signf. <span class="bibl">11</span>); κύκλος τις ὡς τόρνοισιν ἐκμετρούμενος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>382.3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">κύκλου τ</b>. the <b class="b2">centre</b> of a circle, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Vect.</span>1.6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">turning-lathe</b>, βόμβυκας τόρνου κάματον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>57.3</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">καθάπερ τῆς ἐν τόρνψ κυκλοφορουμένης σφαίρας</b> as of a ball being turned in a <b class="b2">lathe</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Mu.</span>391b22</span>; τὰ τοῖς τόρνοις γιγνόμενα ἐπίπεδά τε καὶ στερεά <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Phlb.</span>51c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">56c</span>; ὁ Ἰουδαϊκὸς λίθος . . ἔχων γραμμὰς παραλλήλους ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου Dsc.5.137; <b class="b2">metae . . ex torno ita perfectae, ut alia in aliam inire convenireque possit</b>, Vitr.9.8.6, cf. 10.7.3; ἄξων ἀπὸ τόρνου εἰργασμένος <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Spir.</span>1.16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aut.</span>11.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">that which is turned, circle, round</b>, <span class="bibl">D.P.157</span>.</span>