[Meaning] arms, [sc. military and naval] equipment.
"They find amphoras, and other pottery vessels full of salted meats."[1]
*teu/xea: o(/pla, skeu/h. eu(ri/skousi de\ a)mfore/as, kai\ a)/lla teu/xh keramai=a krew=n mesta\ tetarixeume/nwn.
Likewise in the
Synagoge (tau137 Cunningham) and
Photius,
Lexicon tau221 Theodoridis; cf. Apollonius the Sophist,
Homeric Lexicon 151.10; the fuller entry at
Hesychius tau706 (and alpha3527);
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 3.18, 114, 5.737, 10.439, etc.;
Etymologicum Magnum 755.36; ps.-
Zonaras 1726.
The plural of
teu=xos (
tau 434, and web address 1 there) is particularly common in the sense of the arms that a soldier must put on or take to prepare himself for battle, i.e. his outfit, equipment. In particular, it is the noun for the "Arms of Achilles" (including the Shield) crafted for the hero by Hephaestus in
Homer's
Iliad 18. It is also used for the equipment of a ship.
[1] This summarises rather than quotes
Xenophon,
Anabasis 5.4.28 (web address 1): a party from the Greek army sack the Metropolis of the Mossynoecians, and find, beside slices of salted dolphin meat in amphoras, dolphin blubber in other "vessels" being rendered into oil for the same uses as Greek olive oil. This usage tends to support the hypothesis that
teu/xea refers to vessels used for preparing, e.g. for rendering oil, rather than to crafted (perhaps metal) objects, cf.
tau 435, but see
tau 375 for the contrary argument.
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