A.v.l. χελιδόν, as in Anacreont.9.2 cod.):—swallow, Od.21.411, 22.240, Hes.Op.568, Hdt.2.22, Democr.14, etc.: “πέδοικος χ.” A.Fr.53, cf. Ar.Av.714 (anap): prov., “μία χ. ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ” Cratin.33 (cf. Arist.EN1098a18); “δεῖσθαι δ᾽ ἔοικεν οὐκ ὀλίγων χ.” Ar.Av.1417, cf. 1681; χ. λευκή, of a rare event, Thphr.Sign.39; the twittering of the swallow was prov. used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, “εἴπερ ἐστὶ μὴ χελιδόνος δίκην ἀγνῶτα φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτημένη” A.Ag.1050: hence ὁ χ., = ὁ βάρβαρος, Ion l.c.; “Θρῃκία χ. ἐπὶ βάρβαρον ἑζομένη πέταλον” Ar.Ra.681 (lyr.); χελιδόνων μουσεῖα bowers that ring with poetasters' twitterings, ib.93 (parodied from ἀηδόνων μουσεῖα in E., v. Fr.88).
II. flying-fish, Dactylopterus volitans, hirondelle de mer, Ephipp.12.5 (anap.), Speus. ap. Ath.7.324f; “χ. θαλάττιαι” Arist.HA535b27.
III. frog in the hollow of a horse's foot (expld. by Hsch. τὸ κοῖλον τῆς ὁπλῆς), so called from its being forked like the swallow's tail, X.Eq. 1.3, 4.5, 6.2, Poll.1.188.
2. the like part of a dog's foot, Suid.
4. hollow above the bend of the elbow, Hsch.
6. a kind of ship, Suid.
7. a Peloponnesian silver coin, Id. (Χελιδφών as pr.n., IG92(1).86 (Corinthian, found at Thermon); cf. Assyr. hinundu, Lat. hirundo.）
