χωστρίς
From LSJ
Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Anaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English (LSJ)
ίδος, ἡ, (χώννυμι) χελώνη χ. a shed to protect besiegers in
A filling up the ditch of a town, Plb.9.41.1, D.H.9.68(pl.), Onos.42.3, Ath.Mech.18.8, al.; without χελώνη, Ph.Bel.97.28, Did.ad D.11.22; χωστρίδες distd. fr. χελῶναι, D.S.24.1; opp. χελῶναι κριοφόροι, Id.20.91.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1389] ίδος, ἡ, ein Sturmdach, unter dem die Belagerer einer Stadt Gräben zuschütten, D. Hal. 9, 68 u. A.
