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chelys

chelys · f

The tortoise

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Silvae 8 · 3.19/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k

What it meant

chĕlys — Lewis & Short

chĕlys, f., = xe/lus.

acc. chelyn, voc. chely (other cases apparently not in use),

I The tortoise, Petr. Fragm. 32, 5.—

II As in Greek (cf. Lidd. and Scott in h. v.), a lyre or harp made of its shell, pure Lat. testudo (except Ovid, in post-Aug. poets only; most freq. in Statius): chelys, Stat. S. 1, 5, 1; 4, 4, 33; Claud. III. Cons. Hon. praef. 18; id. Cons. Mall. Theod. 313; id. IV. Cons. Hon. 123; Prud. Apoth. 455: chelyn, Ov. H. 15, 181; Stat. S. 1, 5, 11; 2, 2, 120; 4, 6, 30; 4, 8, 38; id. Th. 6, 366; Sen. Troad. 325; id. Herc. Oet. 1034; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, praef. 8: chely, Stat. S. 4, 3, 119.—

B The constellation Lyra, Avien. Arat. 617 and 631.

In the wild

chelys Statius, Silvae 2.2.60
chelys Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 6.2
chelys Statius, Silvae 1.5.1
chelys Statius, Silvae 1.3.99
chelys Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.123
chelys Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.388

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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