χελιδών

chelidon

swallow

Appears 27 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 20
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 486a5–488b28

487b27
Book II 3
Chapter 15 505b25–506b23

506b21

Chapter 17 506b32–509a23

508b5
509a8
Book III 1
Chapter 12 518b35–519a29

519a6
Book IV 1
Chapter 9 535a27–536b23

535b27
Book V 1
Chapter 13 544a25–544b11

544a26
Book VI 3
Chapter 1 558b8–559a14

559a5

Chapter 5 563a5–16

563a13
563a15
Book VIII 5
Chapter 3 592a28–594a3

592b16

Chapter 12 596b19–597b30

597b4

Chapter 16 600a10–26

600a13
600a16
600a25
Book IX 5
Chapter 7 612b18–613b5

612b21

Chapter 30 618a31–618b8

618a32
618a33

Chapter 40 623b5–627b22

626a8
626a12
On Colours 2
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Chapter 6 797a33–799b20

798a27
799b12
Generation of Animals 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 6 774b5–775b24

774b29
774b31
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 7 1097a15–1098b8

1098a18
Physics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 198b10–199b33

199a26
Rhetoric 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1406b15

Dictionary (LSJ)

χελιδών, όνος, ἡ (even of the male, S.E. M. 1.151); but masc., metaph. of men, Ion Trag.33, cf. Hdn.Gr.1.25: voc. χελιδοῖ, as if from a nom. χελιδώ, Anacr. 67, Simon. 74, Ar. Av. 1411 (anap.), AP 9.70 (Mnasalc., with 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. EN 1098a18); δεῖσθαι δʼ 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). 2. metaph. of letters, τῶν σῶν χ. αἱ ἡμέτεραι πλείους Lib. Ep. 46.2. II. flying-fish, Dactylopterus volitans, hirondelle de mer, Ephipp. 12.5 (anap.), Speus. ap. Ath. 7.324f; χ. θαλάττιαι Arist. HA 535b27. III. frog in the hollow of a horseʼs foot (expld. by Hsch. τὸ κοῖλον τῆς ὁπλῆς), so called from its being forked like the swallowʼs tail, X. Eq. 1.3, 4.5, 6.2, Poll. 1.188. 2. the like part of a dogʼs foot, Suid. 3. = λειχήν 4, Cael.Aur. TP 1.138 (pl.); a growth on the knee in horses, Sch.Nic. Th. 945. 4. hollow above the bend of the elbow, Hsch. 5. pudenda muliebria (with play on Ar. Lys. 770 (hex.)), Suid., cf. Juv. 6.365(6). 6. a kind of ship, Suid. 7. a Peloponnesian silver coin, Id. (Χελιδϝών as pr.n., IG 92(1).86 (Corinthian, found at Thermon); cf. Assyr. hinundu, Lat. hirundo.)

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