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τύλη , ἡ,
A.= τύλος 1, swelling, callus, esp. a porter's shoulder, which has grown callous from carrying weights, ἔκαμόν γα τὰν τύλαν κακῶς, says the Boeotian laden with his wares, Ar.Ach.860; ὑπόκυπτε τὰν τύλαν ib.954, v. Sch. ad ll.; “τραχήλου τύλα” Telecl.50 (so Dor. acc. “τύλαν” Dura4155 (iii A. D.)); of the hump of a camel, Hsch.: also, in pl., blisters on the hands, Id.
2. pad for carrying burdens on, porter's knot, invented by Protagoras, acc. to Arist.Fr.63.
3. cushion, mattress, Sapph.50, Eup.170, Antiph.214, PTeb.765.2 (ii B. C.), PLond.2.402v.15 (ii B. C., prob.), D.S.13.84, AP11.14 (Ammian.), 315 (Lucill.), Artem.5.8, etc. ( = Att. κνέφαλλον acc. to Phryn. 151). [υ^ prob. in Eup. and Antiph. Il. cc., cf. τυ^λος: but υ_ later, AP Il. cc.]
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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