ἔλυτρον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, (εἰλύω) <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[couering]]: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[bow-case]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1043</span> (pl.); [[sheath]] of a spear, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>1120</span>; [[mirror-case]], IG2.706<span class="title">A</span>b13; <b class="b3">χοᾶ ἐν ἐ</b>. ib.11 (2).219<span class="title">B</span>76 (Delos, iii B.C.); [[case]] of a shield, <span class="bibl">D.S.20.11</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[sheath]] of the spinal cord, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>45</span>: the [[shard]] of a beetle's wing, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>532a23</span>; [[shell]] of a crab, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>9.43</span>; of the eye-[[lids]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">de An.</span>421b29</span>; of the umbilical cord, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>586b23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[husk]] or [[capsule]] of seeds, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.7.6</span>; the flowering [[glume]] of <b class="b3">ζέα δίκοκκος</b>, Dsc. 2.89. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[the body]], as being [[the case]] or [[shell]] of the soul, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>588e</span>, Poet. ap. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Demon.</span>44</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[reservoir for water]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.185</span>,<span class="bibl">4.173</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.2.27.7</span>, al.; [[tank]] for fish, <span class="bibl">Palaeph.27</span>. (Cf. Skt. [[varútram]] 'cloak', <b class="b2">varūtár-</b> 'protector'.) [ῠ Ar.l.c.]</span>