φυλακτήριον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[guarded post]], [[fort]], [[castle]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.52: esp. an [[outpost]] communicating with [[fortification]]s, Th.4.31,33,110, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]'' 7.5.12: pl., [[guardrooms]], Arist.''Pol.''1331a20.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[safeguard]], [[security]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''917b: [[preservative]], D.6.24; [[amulet]], Dsc.5.154, Plu. 2.378b, etc.; [[phylactery]], [[speech scroll]], [[banderole]], among the Jews [[φυλακτήρια]] were small [[roll]]s of [[parchment]] with texts from the Law written on them, bound to the [[forehead]] by persons [[pray]]ing, ''Ev.Matt.''23.5; [[φυλακτήρια χρυσᾶ]], [[symbol]]s denoting the [[kingdom]]s of Upper and Lower [[Egypt]], ''OGI''90.45 (Rosetta, ii B. C.); [[amulet]], PMag.Lond.121.298 (pl.); metaph., τὸ ὄνομά σου ἔχω ἓν φ. ἐν καρδίᾳ ''PMag.Leid.W.''18.2.<br><span class="bld">3</span> perhaps [[guard]] or [[chain]], ''PLond.ined''.2199.