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χέλυς , υ^ος, ἡ,
A.tortoise, h.Merc.33.
2. lyre (since Hermes made the first lyre by stretching strings on a tortoise's shell, which acted as a sounding-board), ib.25,153, Sapph.45, A.Fr.314; “καθ᾽ ἑπτάτονον ὀρείαν χ.” E.Alc.448 (lyr.), cf. HF683 (lyr.).
3. the constellation Lyra, Arat.268.
II. arched breast, chest, from its like ness of shape to the back of a tortoise, Hp.Anat.1, E.El. 837; cf. “χελώνιον” 11. [υ_ in nom. and acc. sg., h.Merc.33,153; later υ^, Call.Ap.16, Arat.268, Opp.H.5.404.] (Cf. OSlav. žely 'tortoise'.)
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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