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κώδων , ωνος, ὁ (Att. ἡ S.Aj.17, dub. in Ar.Pax1078),
A.bell, “ὑπ᾽ ἀσπίδος δὲ τῷ χαλκήλατοι κλάζουσι κ. φόνον” A.Th.386, cf. 399, E.Rh.308; χαλκοστόμου κώδωνος ὡς Τυρσηνικῆς, i.e. a trumpet, S.l.c. (where Sch. expl. κώδων as τὸ πλατὺ τῆς σάλπιγγος, i.e. the mouth of the trumpet, cf. Ath.5.185a, Poll.2.203); carried on rounds of inspection to challenge sentries, “τοῦ κώδωνος πα ενεχθέντος” Th.4.135; “ἐφοδεύειν κώδωνι” Plu.Arat.7, cf. Luc.Merc.Cond.24, Sch.Ar.Av.843.
2. crier's bell, hence ταῦθ᾽ οὗτος μόνον οὐ κώδωνας ἐξαψάμενος διαπράττεται 'is his own trumpeter', D.25.90: metaph., ἡ κ. ἀκαλανθίς （ὅτι λάλον τὸ ζῷον Sch.) Ar.Pax 1078 (perh. κύων is the true reading, v. App. Prov.1.12); cf. κρόταλον.
II. = κωδύα, τῆς μήκωνος Dieuch. ap. Orib.4.6.2.
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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