χέλυς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ῠος, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">tortoise</b>, h.Merc.33. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">lyre</b> (since Hermes made the first lyre by stretching strings on a tortoise's shell, which acted as a sounding-board), ib.25,153, Sapph.45, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>314</span>; καθ' ἑπτάτονον ὀρείαν χ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>448</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HF</span>683</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> the constellation <b class="b2">Lyra</b>, <span class="bibl">Arat.268</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">arched breast, chest</b>, from its like ness of shape to the back of a tortoise, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Anat.</span>1</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span> 837</span>; cf. χελώνιον <span class="bibl">11</span>. [ῡ in nom. and acc. sg., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>33</span>,<span class="bibl">153</span>; later ῠ, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Ap.</span>16</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.268</span>, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>5.404</span>.] (Cf. OSlav. <b class="b2">žely</b> 'tortoise'.)</span>

|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-1348.png Seite 1348]] υος, ἡ, = [[χελώνη]], – 1) die <b class="b2">Schildkröte</b>, aus deren Schaale Hermes die erste Lyra verfertigte, H. h. Merc. 33; dah. die Lyra selbst, die aus der Schildkrötenschaale gemacht ist, ib. 25. 153; Aesch. frg. 318; καθ' ἑπτάτονον ὀρείαν χέλυν Eur. Alc. 449; Herc. F. 683; bes. der Schallboden, der gewölbte Theil, Philostr. Imagg. 1, 10. – 2) das Gewölbe, die Brust, Brusthöhle, in der die Lunge liegt, Hippocr., Eur. El. 837.