τεῖχος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[τεῖχος]], ος, εος, τό,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[wall]], esp. a [[wall]] [[round]] a [[city]], [[town]]-[[wall]], in sg. and pl., Hom.; τειχέων κιθῶνες coats of walls, i. e. walls one [[within]] the [[other]], Hdt.; [[τεῖχος]] ἐλαύνειν, δέμειν Il., etc.; οἰκοδομεῖν Hdt.; τ. περιβάλλεσθαι [[moenia]] [[sibi]] circumdare, Hdt.; also, τ. περιβάλλεσθαι τὴν πόλιν Hdt.; τ. ῥήξασθαι to [[breach]] the [[wall]], Il.; so in Prose, τ. καθαιρεῖν, κατασκάπτειν Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> τὰ μακρὰ τείχη at [[Athens]] were lines of [[wall]] connecting the [[city]]-[[wall]] with the harbours, called respectively τὸ βόρειον or Peiraic, and τὸ [[νότιον]] or Phaleric [[wall]].— [[τεῖχος]], τείχη [[differ]] from [[τοῖχος]], as Lat. [[murus]], [[moenia]] from [[paries]], [[city]]-walls from a [[house]]-[[wall]]; cf. [[τειχίον]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> any [[fortification]], a [[castle]], [[fort]], Hdt.: pl. of a [[single]] [[fort]], fortifications, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> a [[fortified]] [[town]], Hdt., Xen., etc.; so in pl. [deriv. uncertain]