χελώνιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[tortoise shell]], Arist. PA671a32, Resp.479a6 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[χελωνιδίων]]), Ael.NA7.16.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[crab's shell]], Plu.2.400a, Suid.s.v. [[Τενέδιος]].<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[arched part of the back]], Poll.2.177: pl., [[muscles of the back]], prob. for [[χελύνια]] in LXX De.34.7.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[part of a lock]], IG11(2).287A46 (Delos, iii B. C.), Inscr.Délos 316.72 (iii B. C.), PTeb.46.17 (ii B. C.), BGU1028.20,26 (ii A. D.), POxy.113.4 (ii A. D.), Theognost.Can.124, Sch.Od.21.47.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[arch]] or [[bow]] for releasing the [[string]] of the [[stomach]]-[[bow]], Hero Bel.77.11.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[knob]] against which the [[butt]]-ends of the [[arm]]s of a [[torsion]]-[[engine]] [[rest]], ib.93.7.<br><span class="bld">4</span> prob. part of an [[irrigation]] [[machine]], PLond.3.1177.179 (ii A. D.); part of a [[crane]] in which the [[axle]] [[turn]]s, Vitr.10.2.2, al.