τεῖχος, εος, τό,
wall, especially city-wall, Ἰλιόφι κλυτὰ τείχεα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.295, compare 446, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.9, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the embankment round the ships, τάφρος Δαναῶν καὶ τ. ὕπερθεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.4, compare 25ff; τ. ἐς ἀμφίχυτον (of heapedup earth) 20.145 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Κιμμέρια τ. earthworks, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.12; but τ. λάϊνα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1087 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93, etc.; λίθοις οὓς ἔλιπον εἰς τὸ τ. ἀναλίσκοντες “IG” 12.81.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξύλινον τεῖχος exceptionally, Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.141, compare 8.51, 9.65, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.3.4, Oracle texts cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1040 (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] uses this phrase for a funeral pile, “P.” 3.38); τ. χάλκεον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. σιδηροῦν, τείχη χαλκᾶ καὶ ἀδαμάντινα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1046, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.84 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τειχέων κιθῶνες coats of walls, i.e. walls one within the other, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τεῖχος ἐλαύνειν, see at {ἐλαύνω} [[ 111.2; τ. ἔδειμαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.436; οἰκοδομέειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.98, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1132, etc. (τ. οἰκοδομήσασθαι] Refs 8th c.BC+] to build oneself walls, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.11); τ. ἄξειν [prev. author] 6.99; τὰ τ. στῆσαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.74; τ. περιβάλλειν ταῖς πόλεσι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331a3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. περιβαλέσθαι build walls round one's city, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.141, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, etc. (also τ. περιβαλέσθαι τὴν πόλιν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.163:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —hence _passive_, τεῖχος περιβεβλημένος having a wall round it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τείχη περιβεβλημένοι, of citizens, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331a8)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but also νῆσον περιβάλλεσθαι τείχει surround one's island with walls, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. ῥήξασθαι breach the wall, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.90, compare 257; τεῖχος ἀναρρήξας 7.461 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Prose, τ. διαιρεῖν, περιαιρέειν, κατελεῖν κατασκάψαι, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.46, 48, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.109, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]