Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, χορδ-ή

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1. string of gut, “τὰ ὑποχόνδρια τελαμῶσι καὶ χορδαῖς διασφίγγει” Sor.2.29; in a loom, Arist.GA787b23: esp. string of a lyre or harp (not in A. or S., once in E., v. infr.), Od.21.407, h.Merc.51, etc.; “ἐν Αἰολίδεσσι χ.” Pi.P.2.69, cf. E.Hipp.1135 (lyr.); χορδὰς ἐπιτείνειν, opp. ἀνιέναι, Pl. Ly.209b; “ἐν τῇ ἐπιτάσει καὶ ἀνέσει τῶν χ.” Id.R.349e; “ὀξυτάτην καὶ βαρυτάτην χορδὴν ποιεῖν” Id.Phdr.268e; “τὰς χ. ἀλλήλαις συνιστάντα” Id.R.412a: metaph., “κινοῦσα χ. τὰς ἀκινήτους φρενῶν” Trag.Adesp. 361.

b. musical note, Pl.Phlb.56a.

2. sausage or black-pudding, “χορδῆς τόμος” Cratin.192, cf. Ar.Ach.1119, Nu.455 (anap.): he puns on the two senses in Ra.339. (Cf. Skt. hirā/ 'vein', hiras 'strip, band, fillet', Albanian zo[rmacr ]e 'entrails', Lat. haru-spex, ONorse g[oogon ]rn 'entrails', garn 'yarn'.)

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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