τήνελλα , a word formed by Archil. (Fr.119) to imitate the twang of a guitar-string (cf. θρεττανελό): he began a triumphal hymn to Heracles with τήνελλα, ὦ καλλίνικε χαῖρε; hence the words τήνελλα καλλίνικε became a common mode of saluting conquerors in the games,
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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