χελώνη

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A tortoise, h.Merc.42,48, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47,48; χ. χερσαία (cf. infr.2) Arist.PA671a28: prov. of insensibility, ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος Ar.V.1292, cf. 429 (lyr.), S.Fr.279, Luc.Vit.Auct.9; of slowness, Plu.2.1082e, Lib.Ep.74.1, etc.    2 ποντιὰς χ. turtle, Crates Com.29; χ. θαλασσία Arist. l.c., cf. 540a29, Ael.VH1.6, Paus. 1.44.8.    II tortoise-shell, Ph.2.478.    2 sounding-board of lyre, Plu.2.1030b.    III pent-house or shed for protecting beseigers, χ. ξυλίνη X.HG3.1.7, 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, LXXHo.12.11.    6 tomb with arched roof, JHS10.82 (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 111, IG11(2).159A26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).