σφόνδῠλ-ος,ὁ(ἡ,v.infr. 1b ), Ion. and later Greekσπόνδῠλος(as in Hp. (v. infr.), Str. 2.5.6 , also in Pherecr. 23 (codd. Clem.Al. ), and some passages of Arist. , as PA 654b16 ):—
A. vertebra, Ar. V. 1489 (anap.), Pl. Ti. 74a ; σύγκειται ἡ ῥάχις ἐκ σφονδύλων
Arist. HA 516a11
, cf. PA 651b34 ; esp.one of the cervical vertebrae, Hp. Aph. 3.26 , cf. Arist.
PA 686a21 , 692a3 : pl.,backbone, spine, E. Ph. 1413 (so in sg., Pherecr. 23 ); orneck, E. El. 841 (so in sg., LXX Le. 5.8 ).
b. generally,joint, esp. in the scorpion's tail, Nic. Th. 798 (where it is fem.), 781 , Hipparch. 3.4.2 .
c. prickly ridgeon the head of theκεστρεύς, Dorio ap. Ath. 7.306f .
d. a kind ofmusseloroyster, Sor. 1.51 , Gal. 6.734 ; ς. θαλάσσιοι
Edict.Diocl. 5.10
; Lat.spondylus, Plin. HN 32.60 , 154 .
II. from resemblance to vertebrae,
1. one of the tamboursin a column, Callix. 1 (σπ-), Milet. 7.59 , al. (Didyma), IG 22.1668.43 , 1672.310 ; not necessarily round, ib. 11 ( 2 ). 161