A.a white earth, prob. gypsum, Hes.Sc.141, Luc.Hist.Conscr.62, Alex.21: also, chalk, lime, Arist.Mete. 383b8, 389a28; mixed with χάλιξ, Str.5.4.6; “τ. ἐσβεσμένη” Aret.CA 2.3; opp. “τ. ζῶσα” Aët.1.393; οἴκου τὴν ἐκ τῆς τ. διασῴζοντος ποιότητα (a cause of insanity) Gal.16.531; “τ. ὕδατι βραχεῖσα” Id.18(2).202; “λαβὼν τ. θερμὴν φύρασον ὄξει” PHolm.4.9: meaning indeterm. in Poll.7.124; “τ. μέλαινα” Hippiatr.80; tetanos, = galbanus, Gloss.: also, marble-scrapings, Luc.Somn.6. (Perh. from the Thessalian placename Τίτανος, cf. “Τιτάνοιό τε λευκὰ κάρηνα” Il.2.735, not conversely as Sch.Il.l.c.)
τίτα^νος [ι^], also τέτανος , Hsch., ἡ,
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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