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κόχλι-ας , ου, ὁ, (κόχλος)
A.snail with a spiral shell, Batr.165, Achae.42, Phily Il.21, etc.; ἀπιστότερος εἶ τῶν κοχλιῶν, for they shrink into their shells on the least alarm, Anaxil.34, cf. Arist.HA523b11, 527b35; “ὥσπερ κ. σεμνῶς ἐπηρκὼς τὰς ὀφρῦς” Amphis 13.3; βολβός, κτείς (codd. τις）“, κοχλίας” Theoc.14.17; “κοχλιῶν ἀγγεῖα” PSI6.553.11 (iii B. C.).
II. anything twisted spirally,
1. automaton in form of snail, Democh.4 J.
2. reel, spool, roller, Bito 47.4, Gp.8.29.
3. screw, Bito 58.10; esp. for raising water, screw of Archimedes, Moschioap.Ath.5.208f, Str.17.1.30,52, D.S.1.34, 5.37, PLond.3.1177.73 (ii A. D.).
4. spiral stair, “διὰ κοχλίου τὴν ἀνάβασιν ἔχει” Str.17.1.10, Procop.Pers.1.24.
5. part of surgical machine, Orib.49.20.6.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Homer, Iliad, 21
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.30
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.10
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.34
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.37
    • Procopius, de Bellis, 1.24
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