Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Τ , τορ-ευτής , τόρν-ος

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A.carpenter's tool for drawing a circle, like our compasses, prob. a pin at the end of a string, Lat. tornus (Plin.HN7.198), Thgn.805; κυκλοτερὴς ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου (of the representation of the earth in early maps) Hdt.4.36; “τροχὸς τόρνῳ γραφόμενος” E.Ba.1067 (perh. in signf. 11); “κύκλος τις ὡς τόρνοισιν ἐκμετρούμενος” Id.Fr.382.3.

2. κύκλου τ. the centre of a circle, X.Vect.1.6.

II. turning-lathe, “βόμβυκας τόρνου κάματον” A.Fr.57.3 (anap.); καθάπερ τῆς ἐν τόρνψ κυκλοφορουμένης σφαίρας as of a ball being turned in a lathe, Arist. Mu.391b22; “τὰ τοῖς τόρνοις γιγνόμενα ἐπίπεδά τε καὶ στερεά” Pl. Phlb.51c, cf. 56c; “ὁ Ἰουδαϊκὸς λίθος . . ἔχων γραμμὰς παραλλήλους ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου” Dsc.5.137; metae . . ex torno ita perfectae, ut alia in aliam inire convenireque possit, Vitr.9.8.6, cf. 10.7.3; “ἄξων ἀπὸ τόρνου εἰργασμένος” Hero Spir.1.16, cf. Aut.11.2.

III. that which is turned, circle, round, D.P.157.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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