χελώνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[tortoise]], h.Merc.42,48, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47,48; χελώνη χερσαία (cf. infr.2) Arist.PA671a28: [[proverb|prov.]] of [[insensibility]], ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος = you tortoises are [[fortunate]] in your [[skin]], Ar.V.1292, cf. 429 (lyr.), S.Fr.279, Luc.Vit.Auct.9; of slowness, Plu.2.1082e, Lib.Ep.74.1, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> ποντιὰς χ. [[turtle]], Crates Com.29; χ. θαλασσία Arist. l.c., cf. 540a29, Ael.VH1.6, Paus. 1.44.8.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[tortoise shell]], Ph.2.478.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[sounding board]] of [[lyre]], Plu.2.1030b.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[penthouse]] or [[shed]] for protecting [[beseiger]]s, χελώνη ξυλίνη X.HG3.1.7, cf. Aen.Tact.32.11; χελώνη [[χωστρίς]], used to protect [[sapper]]s and [[miner]]s, Plb.9.41.1, 10.31.8, Onos.42.3; [[κριοφόρος]], to [[cover]] the [[battering]]-[[ram]], D.S.20.48, etc., cf. App.Mith.31.<br><span class="bld">b</span> = Lat. [[testudo]], [[overlapping shields]], D.C.49.30.<br><span class="bld">2</span> a kind of [[frame]] or [[cradle]], on which heavy weights were moved by means of rollers underneath, Hero Mech. 3.1 (vol. ii p.294 Schmidt).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[footstool]], Polem.Hist.44, Hsch., Suid.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[coin]] [[bear]]ing the [[impress]] of a [[tortoise]], first coined at [[Aegina]], Poll.9.74, Hsch.<br><span class="bld">5</span> pl., [[hillock]]s, LXXHo.12.11.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[tomb with arched roof]], JHS10.82 (Patara).<br><span class="bld">7</span> a kind of [[bandage]], Heliod. ap. Orib.48.66 tit., Sor.Fasc.56.<br><span class="bld">8</span> part of a [[surgical]] [[machine]], from its slow [[uniform]] [[motion]], Orib. 49.4.45.<br><span class="bld">9</span> = [[χελώνιον]] ''III'', IG11(2).159A26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).