τελᾰμών,ῶνος,ὁ,
A. broad straporband for bearingorsupportinganything (fromτελᾰ-'bear' (v.Τλάω, τελάσσαι), whence also the hero Telamon took his name):
1. leathern straporbelt, freq. in Hom. , Il. 17.290 ;δύω τελαμῶνε περὶ στήθεσσι τετάσθην, ἤτοι ὁ μὲν σάκεος, ὁ δὲ φασγάνου, of Ajax, 14.404 ; for the sword alone, ξίφος σὺν κολεῷ τε καὶ ἐϋτμήτῳ τελαμῶνι
7.304
, cf. 23.825 ; μαχαίρας εἶχον . . ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων
18.598
;περὶ στήθεσσι . . χρύσεος ἦν τ. Od. 11.610 ; for the shield, Il. 2.388 , 11.38 , 18.480 ; it passed over the shoulder and bore the chief weight, 5.796 , 16.803 , cf. Hdt. 1.171 ; τ. φαεινός
Il. 12.401
; χάλκεος
Hes. Sc. 222
.
2. broad linen bandagefor wounds, Hdt. 7.181 , Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.9.1 , Herod.
Med. ap. eund. 10.18.15 , Sor. 1.28 , al.; ἀμφὶ τραύματ' . . τελαμῶνας βαλεῖν