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tekel

tekel [LXX θεκέλ < Ar. thiql], one of the words that were written on the wall at Belshazzar's feast (Dan. v 25). mane, techel, phares, quod interpretatum dicitur numeravit, pensavit, divisit Aldh. VirgP 21; digitos scribentis in pariete mane, thecel, phares R. Bury Phil. 16. 209; 1346 flos es, flore cares, in campo viribus ares, / mane tegel [v. l. techel] phares, lupus et lynx non leo pares Pol. Poems I 28 (= Ib. I 40); per techel et mane phares discussaque plane Ib. I 164 (cf. (Ergome) ib. I 165: per techel et mane, phares, i. per scripturam istam, seu per ista verba).

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