χελιδών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=-όνος, ἡ (even of the male, S.E.M.1.151); but masc., metaph. of men, Ion Trag.33, cf. Hdn.Gr.1.25: voc. [[χελιδοῖ]], as if from a nom. [[χελιδώ]], Anacr.67, Simon.74, Ar.Av.1411 (anap.), AP9.70 (Mnasalc., with<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[χελιδόν]], as in Anacreont.9.2 cod.):—[[swallow]], Od.21.411, 22.240, Hes.Op.568, Hdt.2.22, Democr.14, etc.: [[πέδοικος]] χ. A.Fr.53, cf. Ar.Av.714 (anap): [[proverb|prov.]], [[μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ]] = [[one swallow does not a summer make]] Cratin.33 (cf. Arist.EN1098a18); δεῖσθαι δ' ἔοικεν οὐκ ὀλίγων χ. Ar.Av.1417, cf. 1681; χελιδὼν [[λευκός|λευκή]], of a [[rare]] [[event]], Thphr.Sign.39; the [[twittering]] of the [[swallow]] was [[proverb|prov.]] used of [[barbarous]] [[tongue]]s by the [[Greeks]], εἴπερ ἐστὶ μὴ χελιδόνος δίκην ἀγνῶτα φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτημένη A.Ag.1050: hence ὁ χελιδών, = ὁ [[βάρβαρος]], Ion [[l.c.]]; Θρῃκία χ. ἐπὶ βάρβαρον ἑζομένη πέταλον Ar.Ra.681 (lyr.); [[χελιδόνων μουσεῖα]] = [[bower]]s that [[ring]] with [[poetaster]]s' [[twittering]]s, ib.93 (parodied from [[ἀηδόνων μουσεῖα]] in E., v. Fr.88).<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of letters, τῶν σῶν χ. αἱ ἡμέτεραι πλείους Lib.Ep.46.2.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[flying-fish]], [[Dactylopterus volitans]], [[hirondelle de mer]], Ephipp.12.5 (anap.), Speus. ap. Ath.7.324f; χ. [[θαλάττιος|θαλάττιαι]] Arist.HA535b27.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[frog]] in the [[hollow]] of a [[horse]]'s [[foot]] (expld. by [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] τὸ [[κοῖλον]] τῆς [[ὁπλή|ὁπλῆς]]), so called from its being [[fork]]ed like the [[swallow]]'s [[tail]], X.Eq. 1.3, 4.5, 6.2, Poll.1.188.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the like [[part]] of a [[dog]]'s [[foot]], Suid.<br><span class="bld">3</span> = [[λειχήν]] 4, Cael.Aur.TP1.138 (pl.); a [[growth]] on the [[knee]] in [[horse]]s, Sch.Nic.Th.945.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[hollow]] above the [[bend]] of the [[elbow]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[pudenda muliebria]] (with play on Ar.Lys.770 (hex.)), Suid., cf. Juv.6.365(6).<br><span class="bld">6</span> a kind of [[ship]], Suid.<br><span class="bld">7</span> a Peloponnesian silver coin, Id. ([[Χελιδφών]] as pr.n., IG92(1).86 (Corinthian, found at Thermon); cf. Assyr. hinundu, Lat. [[hirundo]].)