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χελών-η , ἡ,
A.tortoise, h.Merc.42,48, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47,48; χ. χερσαία (cf. infr.2) Arist.PA671a28: prov. of insensibility, “ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος” Ar.V.1292, cf. 429 (lyr.), S.Fr.279, Luc.Vit.Auct.9; of slowness, Plu.2.1082e, Lib.Ep.74.1, etc.
2. “ποντιὰς χ.” turtle, Crates Com.29; “χ. θαλασσία” Arist. l.c., cf. 540a29, Ael.VH1.6, Paus. 1.44.8.
II. tortoise-shell, Ph.2.478.
2. sounding-board of lyre, Plu.2.1030b.
III. pent-house or shed for protecting beseigers, “χ. ξυλίνη” X.HG3.1.7, cf. Aen.Tact.32.11; χ. χωστρίς, used to protect sappers and miners, Plb.9.41.1, 10.31.8, Onos.42.3; κριοφόρος, to cover the battering-ram, D.S.20.48, etc., cf. App.Mith.31.
b. = Lat. testudo, overlapping shields, D.C.49.30.
2. a kind of frame or cradle, on which heavy weights were moved by means of rollers underneath, Hero Mech. 3.1 (vol. ii p.294 Schmidt).
3. footstool, Polem.Hist.44, Hsch., Suid.
4. coin bearing the impress of a tortoise, first coined at Aegina, Poll.9.74, Hsch.
5. pl., hillocks, LXXHo.12.11.
6. tomb with arched roof, JHS10.82 (Patara).
7. a kind of bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.66 tit., Sor.Fasc.56.
8. part of a surgical machine, from its slow uniform motion, Orib. 49.4.45.
9. = χελώνιον 111, IG11(2).159A26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).
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 (15):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 1292
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 429
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.47
    • Old Testament, Hosea, 12.11
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.44.8
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.1.7
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 279
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.31.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.41.1
    • Lucian, Vitarum auctio, 9
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.48
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 1.6
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 49.30
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 42.3
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