- τεῖχος
- τεῖχος, εος, τό,A wall, esp. city-wall,
Ἰλιόφι κλυτὰ τείχεα Il.21.295
, cf. 446, Od.6.9, al.; of the embankment round the ships,τάφρος Δαναῶν καὶ τ. ὕπερθεν Il.12.4
, cf. 25 sqq.; τ. ἐς ἀμφίχυτον (of heapedup earth) 20.145; Κιμμέρια τ. earthworks, Hdt.4.12; butτ. λάϊνα E.Tr.1087
(lyr.), cf. Th.1.93, etc.;λίθοις οὓς ἔλιπον εἰς τὸ τ. ἀναλίσκοντες IG12.81.9
; ξύλινον τεῖχος exceptionally, Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141, cf. 8.51, 9.65, Th.2.75, X.HG1.3.4, Orac. ap. Ar.Eq.1040 (Pi. uses this phrase for a funeral pile, P.3.38);τ. χάλκεον Od.10.3
; τ. σιδηροῦν, τείχη χαλκᾶ καὶ ἀδαμάντινα, Ar.Eq.1046, Aeschin.3.84; τειχέων κιθῶνες coats of walls, i.e. walls one within the other, Hdt.7.139; τεῖχος ἐλαύνειν, v. ἐλαύνω 111.2;τ. ἔδειμαν Il.7.436
;οἰκοδομέειν Hdt. 1.98
, cf. Ar.Av.1132, etc. (τ. οἰκοδομήσασθαι to build oneself walls, Th.7.11);τ. ἄξειν Id.6.99
;τὰ τ. στῆσαι D.20.74
;τ. περιβάλλειν ταῖς πόλεσι Arist.Pol.1331a3
; τ. περιβαλέσθαι build walls round one's city, Hdt.1.141, cf. Th.1.8, etc. (alsoτ. περιβαλέσθαι τὴν πόλιν Hdt.1.163
:—hence [voice] Pass., τεῖχος περιβεβλημένος having a wall round it, Pl.Tht.174e; τείχη περιβεβλημένοι, of citizens, Arist.Pol. 1331a8); but also νῆσον περιβάλλεσθαι τείχει surround one's island with walls, Pl.Criti.116a; τ. ῥήξασθαι breach the wall, Il.12.90, cf.257;τεῖχος ἀναρρήξας 7.461
; so in Prose, τ. διαιρεῖν, περιαιρέειν, κατελεῖν κατασκάψαι, etc., Th.2.75, Hdt.6.46,48, Th.4.109, etc.2 τὰ μακρὰ τ., at Athens, lines of wall connecting the city-wall ([etym.] ὁ περίβολος) and the harbours, Th.2.13; they were called respectively τὸ βόρειον or Peiraic, and τὸ νότιον or Phaleric wall (Pl.R.439e, Aeschin. 2.173, 174), cf.σκέλος 11
: an intermediate wall (τὸ διὰ μέσου τ. Pl.Grg.455e) ran parallel to the northern, which was therefore called also τὸ ἔξωθεν, Th.2.13: the quarter inside the walls is sts. called τὸ μακρὸν τ. Long Wall, And.1.45.II fortification, castle, fort, Pi.Fr.213, Hdt.3.14,91, etc.III walled, fortified town or city, Id.9.41,115, X.Cyr.7.5.13, etc.IV wall of a temple, PEleph.20.52 (iii B.C.); of a house, PHamb.15.8 (iii A.D.), PStrassb. 9.8 (iv A.D.), etc. (Cf. Skt. dehmi 'anoint, smear, plaster', Goth. digan 'mould, create (= πλάσσω)', daigs 'dough', Lat. fingo, figura, Osc. feihúss 'walls', etc.)
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