Τύλος
callus; bolt
Translated by David Whitehead25 Feb 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τύλος· νενεκρωμένη σάρξ, ἀποσκίρωμα τῶν γονάτων. δυσχρηστίαν παρεῖχεν ἡ πέτρα, διὰ τὸ τρῆμα ποιεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ τοῖς τύλοις.
Betacode
*tu/los: nenekrwme/nh sa/rc, a)poski/rwma tw=n gona/twn. dusxrhsti/an parei=xen h( pe/tra, dia\ to\ trh=ma poiei=n e)n au)th=| toi=s tu/lois.
Notes (2)
- Two senses of the headword noun
tu/los are presented here; see, respectively, LSJ s.v. I and II.1. (For both together cf. also Aristophanes, Acharnians 553, with scholion.) For the related nountu/lh (Attic) ortu/la (Boeotian), see tau 1150 and tau 1151. - 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius tau544 Theodoridis. ↩
- 2Polybius fr. 82 B-W; more fully already at tau 1150. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- τ1150Τύλαcallus; bolt[*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…
- 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".
- 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".
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- Translated — David Whitehead