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Morphology Lemmata τόνοσ (external link: τόνοσ )Forms: τόν' (data provider: perseus), τόνε (data provider: perseus), τόνοι (data provider: perseus), τόνοισ (data provider: perseus), τόνοισι (data provider: donatus-sup), τόνοισιν (data provider: donatus-sup), τόνον (data provider: perseus), τόνοσ (data provider: perseus), τόνου (data provider: perseus), τόνουσ (data provider: perseus), τόνων (data provider: perseus), τόνῳ (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Bonitz: Index Aristotelicus Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon τόνοσ τόν-οσ , ὁ , (τείνω ) that by which a thing is stretched, or that which can itself be stretched, cord, brace, band, οἱ τ. τῶν κλινέων the cords of beds or chairs, Hdt. 9.118, cf. Ar. Eq. 532 (anap.), Philippid. 12, Michel 832.48 (Samos, iv B.C. ); sg., bedcords, Ar. Lys. 923; ὠμολίνου μακροὶ τόνοι A. Fr. 206 ; ἐκ τριῶν τ. of three plies or strands, of ropes, X. Cyn. 10.2.
2. in animals, τόνοι are sinews or tendons, Hp. Art. 11 ( = nerves acc. to Gal. 18(1).380):— of pneumogastric nerves, Ruf. Onom. 158.
3. in machines, twisted skeins of gut in torsion-engines, Ph. Bel. 65.34, al., Hero Bel. 83.4, Plu. Marc. 15.
b. in the γαστραφέτης, = αἱ ἐκ τῶν ἄκρων κάμψεισ , Hero Bel. 75.7.
c. in dockyard equipment, ὑποζωμάτων τέτταρας τόνους ἐγ νεωρίων IG 22.1673.12 ; τ. αἰχμάλωτοι ib.1610.23; τ. αἰχμάλωτος ἀδόκιμοσ ib.1613.282.
4. row or line of pillars, ib.1668.48.
II. stretching, tightening, straining, strain, tension, ὁ τ. τῶν ὅπλων Hdt. 7.36 ; power of contracting muscles, Sor. 1.112; τ. καὶ ῥώμη Id. 2.48 ; τὸν τῆς ὁλκῆς τ. ὑπεκλῦσαι diminish the strength of the pull, ib. 61.
2. of sounds, raising of the voice, Aeschin. 3.209,210, D. 18.280, Phld. Lib. p.19 O., etc.: hence,
a. pitch of the voice, Pl. R. 617b, Arist. Phgn. 807a17, etc.; including volume, τόνοι φωνῆς· ὀξύ, βαρύ, μικρόν, μέγα X. Cyn. 6.20 ; κλαυθμυρίσαι μετὰ τόνου τοῦ προσήκοντος, of a new-born baby, Sor. 1.79; τῷ αὐτῷ τ. εἰπεῖν Arist. Rh. 1413b31 ; ἐν τ. ἀνιεμένοις καὶ βαρέσι Id. Aud. 804a26 ; τὴν φωνὴν καὶ τὸν τ. ἐξάραντα Hieronym. ap. D.H. Isoc. 13 (cf. Phld. Rh. 1.198 S. ); σῴζειν τὸν τ. Longin. 9.13 : pl., Phld. Rh. 1.196S.; of a musical instrument, Plu. 2.827b, etc.; diatonic scale, APl. 4.220 (Antip.): metaph. of colour, 'values' , Plin. HN 35.29.
b. pitch or accent of a word or syllable, Arist. Rh. 1403b29, D.T. 629.27, A.D. Pron. 8.8, al., Gal. 16.495 (the meaning of the Adv. τόνῳ mentioned by A.D. Adv. 167.2 is not given by him ( = λίαν , Hsch. ); τόνῳ, = μετὰ προθυμίας ἰσχυρᾶσ , was read by Gal. (16.585) in Hp. Prorrh. 1.36 (ξὺν τόνῳ or ξὺν πόνῳ codd.Hp. )).
c. measure or metre, ἐν ἑξαμέτρῳ τ. Hdt. 1.47 ,62, 5.60; ἐν τριμέτρῳ τ. Id. 1.174 .
d. in Musical writers, key, Aristox. Harm. 2p.37M., Plu. 2.1134a, 1135a, etc.
3. mental or physical exertion, τ. ἀμφ' ἀρετῆς, i.e. in praising it, Xenoph. 1.20; bodily energy, ἰσχὺς καὶ τ. Luc. Anach. 25 , cf. 27; συστρέψαι τὸν τ. (by massage) Gal. 6.91: generally, force, intensity, Plu. Demetr. 21, 2.563f, etc.; τ. ὀργῆσ Id. Brut. 34 ; τ. πνεύματοσ Luc. Dem.Enc. 7 ; ὁ τ. τῆς φαρμακείησ its efficiency, Hp. Ep. 16; τ. δυνάμεων, title of a work by Heras, Gal. 13.416; τ. σοφιστικόσ Eun. VS p.497B.
4. in Stoic Philos., 'tension', force, in Nature and Man, πληγὴ πυρὸς ὁ τόνος ἐστί, κἂν ἱκανὸς ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ γένηται πρὸς τὸ ἐπιτελεῖν τὰ ἐπιβάλλοντα, ἰσχὺς καλεῖται καὶ κράτοσ Cleanth.Stoic. 1.128 ; ὁ ζωτικὸς τ. Stoic. 2.235 , Gal. 6.321; αἰσθητικὸς τ. Stoic. 2.215 ; συνεκτικὸς τ. the tension which holds the universe together, ib.134.
III. metaph., tenor of one's way, course, εὐθὺν τ. τρέχειν Pi. O. 10(11).64 ; ἕνα τόνον ἔχειν Plu. Dem. 13 .
IV. quarter of a city, IG 12(5).872.36, al. (Tenos ).William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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