See also:

• CHELYS (Gr. x Xvs, tortoise; Lat. testudo)

CHELYS (Gr. x Xvs, See also:

• TORTOISE

tortoise; See also:

• LAT

Lat. testudo)  , the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• LYRE (Gr. Xupa)

lyre of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Greeks, which had a See also:

• CONVEX

convex back of See also:

• TORTOISE

tortoise-See also:

• SHELL
• SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

shell or of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood shaped like the shell . The word See also:

• CHELYS (Gr. x Xvs, tortoise; Lat. testudo)

chelys was used in allusion to the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest lyre of the Greeks which was said to have been invented by See also:

• HERMES
• HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831)

Hermes . According to tradition he was attracted by sounds of See also:

• MUSIC

music while walking on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile, and found they proceeded from the shell of a tortoise across which were stretched tendons which the See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind had set in vibration (Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 47-51) . The word has been applied arbitrarily since dassic times to various stringed See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments, some bowed and some twanged, probably owing to the back being much vaulted . See also:

• KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS (r6oi-168o)

Kircher (Musurgia, 486) applied the name of chelys to a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• VIOL

viol with eight strings . Numerous representations of the chelys lyre or testudo occur on the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek vases, in which the actual See also:

• TORTOISESHELL

tortoiseshell is depicted; a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration is given in Le Antichitd di Ercolano (vol. i. pl . 43) . See also:

• PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS (ft. 30-15 B.C.)

Propertius (iv . 6) calls the See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument the See also:

• LYRA (" The Harp ")

lyra testudinea . See also:

• SCALIGER

Scaliger (on See also:

• MANILIUS
• MANILIUS, GAIUS

Manilius, Astronomicon, Proleg . 420) was probably the first writer to draw See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the difference. between chelys and See also:

• CITHARA (Assyrian chetarah; Gr. KcOhpa; Lat, cithara; perhaps Heb. kinura, kinnor)

cithara (q.v.) . (K .