χελιδών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=όνος, ἡ (even of the male, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>1.151</span>); but masc., metaph. of men, Ion Trag.<span class="bibl">33</span>, cf. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.25</span>: voc. [[χελιδοῖ]], as if from a nom. [[χελιδώ]], <span class="bibl">Anacr.67</span>, <span class="bibl">Simon.74</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1411</span> (anap.), <span class="title">AP</span>9.70 (Mnasalc., with <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> v.l. [[χελιδόν]], as in <span class="title">Anacreont.</span>9.2 cod.):—[[swallow]], <span class="bibl">Od.21.411</span>, <span class="bibl">22.240</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>568</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.22</span>, <span class="bibl">Democr.14</span>, etc.: πέδοικος χ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>53</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>714</span> (anap): prov., μία χ. ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ <span class="bibl">Cratin.33</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1098a18</span>); δεῖσθαι δ' ἔοικεν οὐκ ὀλίγων χ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1417</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1681</span>; <b class="b3">χ. λευκή</b>, of a rare event, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span>39</span>; the twittering of the swallow was prov. used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, εἴπερ ἐστὶ μὴ χελιδόνος δίκην ἀγνῶτα φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτημένη <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1050</span>: hence <b class="b3">ὁ χ</b>., = [[ὁ βάρβαρος]], Ion l.c.; Θρῃκία χ. ἐπὶ βάρβαρον ἑζομένη πέταλον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>681</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">χελιδόνων μουσεῖα</b> bowers that ring with poetasters' [[twitterings]], ib.<span class="bibl">93</span> (parodied from <b class="b3">ἀηδόνων μουσεῖα</b> in E., v. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>88</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of letters, τῶν σῶν χ. αἱ ἡμέτεραι πλείους <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>46.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">flying-fish, Dactylopterus volitans, hirondelle de mer</b>, <span class="bibl">Ephipp.12.5</span> (anap.), Speus. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.7.324f</span>; χ. θαλάττιαι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>535b27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">frog in the hollow of a horse's foot</b> (expld. by Hsch. <b class="b3">τὸ κοῖλον τῆς ὁπλῆς</b>), so called from its being <b class="b2">forked like the swallow's tail</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span> 1.3</span>, <span class="bibl">4.5</span>, <span class="bibl">6.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.1.188</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">the like part of a dog's foot</b>, Suid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> = [[λειχήν]] <span class="bibl">4</span>, Cael.Aur.<span class="title">TP</span>1.138 (pl.); [[a growth on the knee in horses]], Sch.<span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>945</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[hollow above the bend of the elbow]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[pudenda muliebria]] (with play on <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>770</span> (hex.)), Suid., cf. Juv.6.365(6). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> a kind of [[ship]], Suid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> a Peloponnesian silver coin, Id. ([[Χελιδφών]] as pr.n., <span class="title">IG</span>92(1).86 (Corinthian, found at Thermon); cf. Assyr. [[hinundu]], Lat. [[hirundo]].) </span>