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Headword:
*xelw/nh
Adler number: chi,190
Translated headword: tortoise
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the terrestrial animal, the shell-back;[1] also the marine one; also the name of a battle formation; also a military fashion, from which there are 'tortoise sheds', siege machine, and rams.
The Thessalian women, out of jealousy for Lais the courtesan, murdered her by striking her with wooden "tortoises" in the shrine of Aphrodite while a festival was under way. Later they made a shrine of Unholy Aphrodite, since the women had dared to commit an unholy murder in the shrine.[2]
Greek Original:*xelw/nh: to\ xersai=on zw=|on, h( o)strako/nwtos: kai\ to\ qala/ssion: kai\ parata/cews o)/noma: kai\ ei)=dos polemisth/rion, e)c ou(= kai\ xelw=nai xwstri/des, poliorkhtiko\n mhxa/nhma, kai\ krioi/. zhlotupou=sai ai( *qettalai\ gunai=kes th\n *lai/+da th\n e(tairi/da culi/nais xelw/nais e)fo/neusan tu/ptousai e)n tw=| i(erw=| th=s *)afrodi/ths, panhgu/rews ou)/shs. u(/steron de\ i(ero\n e)poi/hsan a)nosi/as *)afrodi/ths, e)peidh\ ai( gunai=kes e)n tw=| i(erw=| a)no/sion tetolmh/kasi fo/non.
Notes:
[1] cf.
chi 195.
[2] This paragraph is derived from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 179 (web address 1), where Lais (
lambda 40) is mentioned. See also
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.589A-B (13.55 Kaibel). The wooden 'tortoises' have generally been envisaged as footstools: see e.g. LSJ s.v.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 16 January 2007@10:41:46.
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