Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τηλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τηλία

Structure: τηλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a board or table with a raised edge, a baker's board
  2. a table or stage whereon gamecocks and quails were set to fight
  3. a chimney-board
  4. the hoop of a corn-sieve

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ τυγχάνοι γ’ ὁ δακτύλιοσ ὢν τηλία. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:29)
  • ἀτὰρ οὐκέτ’ ἐρρήσεισ γε, ποῦ ’σθ’ ἡ τηλία; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 4:17)
  • τηλία, ταινία, οἰκία, τὴν σηπίαν δὲ Ἀριστοτέλησ πόδασ ἔχειν ὀκτώ, ὧν τοὺσ ὑποκάτω δύο μεγίστουσ, προβοσκίδασ δύο καὶ μεταξὺ αὐτῶν τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ καὶ τὸ στόμα, ἔχει δὲ καὶ ὀδόντασ δύο τὸν μὲν ἄνω, τὸν δὲ κάτω καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον ὄστρακον ἐν τῷ νώτῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1235)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ἀπηλλάγη παρὰ τοῦ Ἀντικλέουσ καὶ τοῦ Μισγόλα Τίμαρχοσ οὑτοσί, οὐκ ἐνουθέτησεν ἑαυτόν, οὐδὲ βελτιόνων διατριβῶν ἥψατο, ἀλλὰ διημέρευεν ἐν τῷ κυβείῳ, οὗ ἡ τηλία τίθεται καὶ τοὺσ ἀλεκτρυόνασ συμβάλλουσιν καὶ κυβεύουσιν· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 534)

Synonyms

  1. a chimney-board

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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