Τύλα
callus; bolt
Translated by David Whitehead26 Feb 2014Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[*tu/la ,] and [sc. also attested is] tu/los as a masculine, [sc. meaning] the callused part of the shoulder and compacted part of the flesh, such as often happens to the shoulder in those bearing burdens, as a result of constantly carrying something. Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "let Heracles be witness, I am badly tired with my callus." And Teleclides mentioned a callus of the throat.1
Polybius [writes]: "[...] with the rock presenting difficult conditions, because of the necessity to make a piercing in it for the bolts holding the pipe being deployed."2
Polybius [writes]: "[...] with the rock presenting difficult conditions, because of the necessity to make a piercing in it for the bolts holding the pipe being deployed."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τύλα, καὶ τύλος ἀρσενικῶς, τοῦ ὤμου τὸ τετυλωμένον καὶ πεπιλημένον τῆς σαρκός, ὁποῖον πολλάκις ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου γίνεται τοῖς ἀχθοφόροις ἐκ τοῦ βαστάζειν τι συνεχῶς. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἀχαρνεῦσιν· ἴστω γ' Ἡρακλῆς, ἔκαμον τὰν τύλαν κακῶς. καὶ Τηλεκλείδης τραχήλου τύλαν εἶπε. Πολύβιος· τῆς πέτρας αὐτοῖς δυσχρηστίαν παρεχούσης διὰ τὸ δεῖν τρῆμα ποιεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ τοῖς τύλοις κρατοῦσι τὴν σύριγγα τὴν προσαγομένην.
Betacode
*tu/la, kai\ tu/los a)rsenikw=s, tou= w)/mou to\ tetulwme/non kai\ pepilhme/non th=s sarko/s, o(poi=on polla/kis e)pi\ tou= w)/mou gi/netai toi=s a)xqofo/rois e)k tou= basta/zein ti sunexw=s. *)aristofa/nhs *)axarneu=sin: i)/stw g' *(hraklh=s, e)/kamon ta\n tu/lan kakw=s. kai\ *thleklei/dhs traxh/lou tu/lan ei)=pe. *polu/bios: th=s pe/tras au)toi=s dusxrhsti/an parexou/shs dia\ to\ dei=n trh=ma poiei=n e)n au)th=| toi=s tu/lois kratou=si th\n su/rigga th\n prosagome/nhn.
Notes (2)
- See again tau 1154 for both the noun
tu/los and a shorter version of the Polybius quotation. For a different sense of the nountu/la (corresponding to Attictu/lh ), see tau 1151. - 1An approximation of Aristophanes, Acharnians 860 (Boeotian dialect), with a scholion which quotes Teleclides fr. 50 Kock, now 53 K.-A. ↩
- 2Polybius fr. 82 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst leaves the fragment unplaced, but emends the text (525) to read
toi=s tu/lois toi=s kratunou=si th\n su/rigga th\n prosagome/nhn , for the bolts which held up the mine (Walbank, 750). ↩
References
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)
Linked from3 entries
- τ1151Τύληcushion, mattress[Meaning] bedding. Example: "someone seemed [sc. in a dream] to have wheatsheaves instead of flocking in his cushion/mattress, [...] and he fathered a male child".
- τ1154Τύλοςcallus; bolt[Meaning] dead flesh, a knobble of [= on] the knees. "The rock presented difficult conditions, because of the [necessity] to create a piercing in it for the bolts."
- τ1155Τυλοῦταιis made knobbly, is made hard, is studded[Meaning he/she/it] is wounded, is thickened. "Most of the Parthians had helmets of iron or studded with iron".
Neighbouring entries
Revision history7 revisions · last 22 Oct 2022
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.2, added bibliography, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead