trochus

trŏchus, i, m., = τροχός,

• an iron hoop set round with small rings, a trundling-hoop for children, Hor. C. 3, 24, 57; id. A. P. 380; Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 6; Ov. A. A. 3, 383; id. Tr. 2, 486; Mart. 14, 168, 2; 14, 169, 2 al.

trochus, ī, m. (τροχός), I) ein eiserner, mit vielen kleinen losen, dah. bei der Bewegung klirrenden Ringen (garruli anuli, s. Mart. 14, 169) behängter Reif, den die Knaben zur Belustigung auf freien Plätzen mit einem Treibkloben, der einen hölzernen Griff u. eine gekrümmte eiserne Spitze hatte (clavis adunca, Prop. l.l.), forttrieben, der Spielreif, das Spielrad, Hor. carm. 3, 24, 57. Prop. 3, 14, 6. Ov. art. am. 3, 383. Mart. 14, 168 u. 169. – II) ein Zauberreif. - rad, Laev. fr. bei Apul. apol. 30 Kr. (Müller Laev. fr. 10 trochisci). – III) Trochus (Folterrad), scherzh. Name eines Sklaven, Plaut. trin. 1020 Spengel (vgl. praef. p. VII sq.).

trochus [CL < τροχός], hoop (esp. as child's plaything), (also) top. b (in gl.). ~us, genus roti [l. rotae] ad ludum GlC T 249; †troclinus [l. trochus], †sectae genus [l. rotae genus] Ib. T 276; pergamus ‥ jocare foris cum baculis nostris et pila nostra seu ~o nostro. ‥ et si tu vis mecum ludere ~o, ego dabo tibi unum flagellum Ælf. Bata 4. 9; troclea ‥ dicitur instrumentum a ‘~os’ [v. l. troclos], quod est rotundum Neckam Ut. 115; [pusiones] qui trocos scutice jocoso verbere / solent inaniter in orbes cogere Walt. Wimb. Palpo 179; plures colores videntur unus ex distantia superflua; ut in troco habente colores diversos in partibus suis, velociter moto, apparet unus color compositus ex omnibus Bacon Tert. sup. 31; conoides est forma que a lato incipit et tendit in acutum ad modum coni sive troci Comm. Sph. 338; de ludis: hic trocus, topet Gl. AN Glasg. f. 20rb; de ludis: hic trocus, tupeth vel caboth Gl. AN Ox. 144; ~us et torpillus, A. a top WW; top, of chyldyrnys play, trocus, -i PP.  b theosos i. rotundum Alph. 184 (cf. ib. 119: trocos enim rotundus dicitur); trocus ‥ interpretatur rotundus SB 42.

trŏchus, (14) ī, m. (τροχός), trochus, cerceau de métal garni dʼanneaux cliquetants avec lequel jouent les enfants : Prop. 3, 14, 6 ; Hor. O. 3, 24, 57.

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trochus ī, m

• , τροχός, an iron hoop carrying small rings, trundling-hoop: Indoctus trochi, H., O., Pr.

TROCHUS

TROCHUS(τροχός, κρίκος), a hoop (Artemid. 1.55;--Ov. Tr. 3.12, 19; Art. Am. 3.338, &c.). The Greek and Roman boys used to exercise themselves like ours by trundling a hoop. It was a bronze ring, and had sometimes bells attached to it (Mart. 11.21, 2; 14.168-Z2, 169). It was propelled by means of a hook with a wooden handle, called clavis (Propert. 4.14) and ἐλατήρ. From the Greeks this custom passed to the Romans, who consequently adopted the Greek term (Hor. Carm. 3.24, 57). The hoop was used at the GYMNASIUM(Propert. l. c.; Ovid, Ov. Tr. 2.485); and therefore, on one of the gems in the Stosch Collection at Berlin, which is engraved in the subjoined woodcut, it is accompanied by the vase of oil and the laurel branch, the signs of effort and of victory. On each side of this we have represented another gem from the same collection. Both of these exhibit naked youths trundling the hoop by means of the hook or key. These show the size of the hoop, which in the middle figure has also three small rings or bells on its circumference. (Winckelmann, Desc. des Pierres Gravéyes, pp. 452-455.)

On the use of τροχὸς to denote the potter's wheel, see FICTILE(Blümner, Privatalterth. 293; Marquardt, Privatleben, 836.)

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Trochus

(τροχός). A hoop for children. It was made of iron or bronze, and rolled by a sort of crooked stick or “key” (clavis). Sometimes, as with us, it had small bells fastened to it to jingle as the hoop rolled (Mart. xiv. 169).