χελώνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[tortoise]], h.Merc.42,48, Orac. ap. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.47</span>,<span class="bibl">48</span>; <b class="b3">χ. χερσαία</b> (cf. infr.<span class="bibl">2</span>) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>671a28</span>: prov. of insensibility, ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>1292</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">429</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>279</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Vit.Auct.</span>9</span>; of slowness, Plu.2.1082e, <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>74.1</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> ποντιὰς χ. [[turtle]], <span class="bibl">Crates Com.29</span>; χ. θαλασσία Arist. l.c., cf. 540a29, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span>1.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus. 1.44.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[tortoise-shell]], <span class="bibl">Ph.2.478</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[sounding-board]] of lyre, Plu.2.1030b. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[pent-house]] or [[shed]] for protecting beseigers, χ. ξυλίνη <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.1.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Aen.Tact.32.11</span>; <b class="b3">χ. χωστρίς</b>, used to protect sappers and miners, <span class="bibl">Plb.9.41.1</span>, <span class="bibl">10.31.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Onos.42.3</span>; [[κριοφόρος]], to cover the battering-ram, <span class="bibl">D.S.20.48</span>, etc., cf. <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Mith.</span>31</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> = Lat. [[testudo]], [[overlapping shields]], <span class="bibl">D.C.49.30</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> a kind of [[frame]] or [[cradle]], on which heavy weights were moved by means of rollers underneath, Hero <span class="title">Mech.</span> 3.1 (vol. ii p.294 Schmidt). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[footstool]], <span class="bibl">Polem.Hist.44</span>, Hsch., Suid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[coin]] bearing the impress of a [[tortoise]], first coined at Aegina, <span class="bibl">Poll.9.74</span>, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> pl., [[hillocks]], <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ho.</span>12.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> [[tomb with arched roof]], <span class="title">JHS</span>10.82 (Patara). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> a kind of [[bandage]], Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.48.66</span> tit., <span class="bibl">Sor.<span class="title">Fasc.</span>56</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> part of a surgical machine, from its slow uniform motion, <span class="bibl">Orib. 49.4.45</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> = [[χελώνιον]] ''III'', <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).159<span class="title">A</span>26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[χελώνη]], ἡ, [from [[χέλυς]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[tortoise]], Hhymn., Hdt.; prov. of [[insensibility]], ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος oh ye tortoises, [[happy]] in [[your]] [[thick]] skins! Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> like Roman [[testudo]], a pent-[[house]] formed of shields overlapping [[each]] [[other]] like the scales on a [[tortoise]]'s [[back]], used by [[storming]] parties in approaching a [[city]]'s walls: then, [[generally]], a pent-[[house]] for [[protecting]] besiegers, Xen.