τελαμών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ῶνος, ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[broad strap]] or [[band for bearing]] or [[supporting]] anything (from τελᾰ- 'bear' (v. [[Τλάω]], [[τελάσσαι]]), whence also the hero Telamon took his name):<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[leather strap]] or [[belt]], freq. in Hom., Il.17.290; <b class="b3">δύω τελαμῶνε περὶ στήθεσσι τετάσθην, ἤτοι ὁ μὲν σάκεος, ὁ δὲ φασγάνου</b>, of Ajax, 14.404; for the sword alone, ξίφος σὺν κολεῷ τε καὶ ἐϋτμήτῳ τελαμῶνι 7.304, cf. 23.825; μαχαίρας εἶχον.. ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων 18.598; <b class="b3">περὶ στήθεσσι.. χρύσεος ἦν τ.</b> Od. 11.610; for the shield, Il.2.388, 11.38, 18.480; it passed over the shoulder and bore the chief weight, 5.796, 16.803, cf. Hdt.1.171; τ. φαεινός Il.12.401; χάλκεος Hes.''Sc.''222.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[broad linen bandage]] for wounds, Hdt.7.181, Antyll. ap. Orib.7.9.1, Herod. Med. ap. eund.10.18.15, Sor.1.28, al.; ἀμφὶ τραύματ'.. τελαμῶνας βαλεῖν E.''Ph.''1669; also, a [[long linen bandage]] or [[roller]], for swathing mummies, Hdt.2.86, cf. ''AP''11.125.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[band]] for the hair, Callistr.''Stat.''11.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in Architecture, [[Τελαμῶνες]] were [[colossal male figures used as bearing-pillars]], being the Roman name for [[Ἄτλαντες]], Vitr.6.7.6.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[base]] of a <b class="b3">στήλη, ἁ στάλα καὶ ὁ τελαμὼν</b> (prob. written [[τελαμὼ]], v. ''Mnemos.''58.28) ἱαρὰ τᾶς Ἥρας ''IG''4.517 (Argos, v B.C.); [ἀναγράψαι εἰς σ]τήλην λευκοῦ λίθου [κα]ὶ ἀναθ[εῖναι αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τελα]μ[ῶ]νος prob. rest. in ''CIG''2056d (loc.inc., perhaps Odessus); simply = [[στήλη]], ἀναγράψαι.. εἰς τελαμῶνα λευκοῦ λίθου καὶ ἀναθεῖναι κτλ. ''SIG''731.41 (Tomi, i B.C.), al., cf. ''Milet.''3p.377No.153.39, ''BMus.Inscr.''1007 (Cyzicus, ii A.D.), etc.