07-07-2016, 10:10 PM
(07-06-2016, 12:31 PM)Dan Howard Wrote: They were turned on a lathe, reinforced across the grain on the front with thin wooden laths, and reinforced on the back with leather.
(07-07-2016, 09:59 PM)M. Val. Naso Wrote: Liddell gives τορνεύω as "working on a lathe". It does surface several times in the corpus, notably Plato (finely turned ideas), Euripides (whirl), Plato again (turner as a profession), Plato yet again (something wrought into a round shape), and Plato again (carving out something), and many more.
But even LSJ lists the word that Aristophanes uses as 'lyre-turner and shield-maker', so why would someone infer any different?
Scott B.