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χελι_δ-όνιος or χελι_δ-όνειος , α, ον, also ος, ον Poll.6.81:—
A.of the swallow, “μέλος” Suid.; χ. τεῖχος built by swallows, Thrasyll. ap. Ps.-Plu.Fluv.16.2.
II. like the swallow, esp. coloured like the swallow's throat, reddish-brown, russet, ἰσχάδες χελιδόνιαι russet-coloured figs, Philem.Gloss. ap. Ath. 14.652f., cf. Dsc.5.32, Poll.l.c.; “χ. πυρός” Dsc.Eup.1.228; χελιδόνια (sc. σῦκα) Ar.Fr.569.4 (χελιδόνεια Epigen.1.2).
2. χελιδονία, ἡ, a kind of gem, Plin.HN37.155; lapis chelidonius ib.11.203.
3. χ. ἀσπίς, a kind of asp, Philum.Ven.16.1, Gal. 14.235, cf. χελιδονιαῖος.
4. δασύπους χελιδόνειος, of the common hare, Diph.1.
5. χελιδονεία κύλιξ, name of a kind of cup, IG11(2).154B7 (pl., Delos, iii B.C.), cf. 145.46 (ib., iv. B.C.), Inscr.Delos385a53 (ii B. C.).
6. χελιδόνιον, τό, an eye-salve, CIL13.10021.93.
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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