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χελιδών (chelidōn) a swallow ^G:N-F

χελιδών-ών, όνος, ἡ

(even of the male, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but masculine, metaphorically of men, Ion Trag.[Refs 6th c.BC+], with variant{χελιδόν}, as in [Refs]:—swallow, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χ. λευκή, of a rare event, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; the twittering of the swallow was proverbial used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, εἴπερ ἐστὶ μὴ χελιδόνος δίκην ἀγνῶτα φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτημένη [Refs 4th c.BC+] ={ὁ βάρβαρος}, Ion [same place]; Θρῃκία χ. ἐπὶ βάρβαρον ἑζομένη πέταλον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χελιδόνων μουσεῖα bowers that ring with poetasters' twitterings, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 metaphorically of letters, τῶν σῶν χ. αἱ ἡμέτεραι πλείους [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II flying-fish, Dactylopterus volitans, hirondelle de mer, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III frog in the hollow of a horse's foot (explained by [Refs 5th c.AD+], so called from its being forked like the swallow's tail, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 the like part of a dog's foot, [Refs]
__III.3 ={λειχήν}[Refs 5th c.AD+]; a growth on the knee in horses, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III.4 hollow above the bend of the elbow, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
__III.5 pudenda muliebria (with play on [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.6 a kind of ship, [Refs]
__III.7 a Peloponnesian silver coin, [Refs]; cf. Assyr. hinundu, Latin hirundo.)