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|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[carpenter's tool for drawing a circle]], like our [[compass]]es, prob. a [[pin]] at the end of a [[string]], Lat. [[tornus]] (Plin.HN7.198), Thgn.805; κυκλοτερὴς ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου (of the representation of the earth in early maps) Hdt.4.36; τροχὸς τόρνῳ γραφόμενος E.Ba.1067 (perhaps in signf. ''ΙΙ''); [[κύκλος]] τις ὡς τόρνοισιν ἐκμετρούμενος Id.Fr.382.3.<br><span class="bld">2</span> κύκλου τ. the [[centre]] of a circle, X.Vect.1.6.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[turning-lathe]], βόμβυκας τόρνου [[κάματος|κάματον]] A.Fr.57.3 (anap.); καθάπερ τῆς ἐν τόρνῳ κυκλοφορουμένης σφαίρας = as of a [[ball]] being turned in a [[lathe]], Arist. Mu.391b22; τὰ τοῖς τόρνοις γιγνόμενα ἐπίπεδά τε καὶ στερεά Pl. Phlb.51c, cf. 56c; ὁ Ἰουδαϊκὸς [[λίθος]] . . ἔχων γραμμὰς παραλλήλους ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου = the Jewish stone, which has [[parallel]] [[line]]s as if it had been worked on a [[lathe]] Dsc.5.137; [[meta]]e . . ex [[torno]] ita perfectae, ut alia in aliam [[ineo|inire]] convenireque possit = cones . . turned on a [[lathe]] so that one will go into the other and [[fit]] it [[perfectly]], Vitr.9.8.6, cf. 10.7.3; [[ἄξων]] ἀπὸ τόρνου εἰργασμένος Hero Spir.1.16, cf. Aut.11.2.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[that which is turned]], [[circle]], [[round]], D.P.157.