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χελώνη

chelone

lip

Appears 41 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

χελώνη, ἡ, A. tortoise, h.Merc. 42,48, Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.47,48; χ. χερσαία (cf. infr. 2) Arist. PA 671a28: 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. VH 1.6, 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. HG 3.1.7, 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, JHS 10.82 (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 III, IGΙΙ(2).159A 26,60 (Delos, iii B. C.).

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