ἑλίκων
From LSJ
ἢ τάπερ πάθομεν ἄχεα πρός γε τῶν τεκομένων → the pains which we have suffered, and, indeed, from our own parent | the pains which we have suffered, and those even from the one who brought us into the world | the pains we have suffered, and from a parent, too
English (LSJ)
ωνος, ὁ,
A thread spun from the distaff to the spindle, Hsch. II a nine-stringed instrument, Aristid.Quint.3.3, Ptol.Harm.2.2.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἑλίκων: -ωνος, ὁ, τὸ «ἀπὸ χειρὸς νῆμα τὸ φερόμενον ἐν τῷ ἀτράκτῳ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν» Ἡσύχ. ΙΙ. ἑλικών, ῶνος, ὁ, τετράγωνον μουσικὸν ὄργανον μετὰ ἐννέα χορδῶν, Ἀριστείδ. Κοϊντιλ. 3, π. 187, Meib., Σχόλ. εἰς Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 899.
