χέλυς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ῠος, ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[tortoise]], h.Merc.33. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[lyre]] (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"><span class="bld">3</span> the constellation [[Lyra]], <span class="bibl">Arat.268</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[arched breast]], [[chest]], 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 ''ΙΙ''. [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. [[žely]] 'tortoise'.)</span>