A). wall, esp. city-wall, Ἰλιόφι κλυτὰ τείχεα Il. 21.295 , cf. 446 , Od. 6.9 , al.; of the embankment round the ships, τάφρος Δαναῶν καὶ τ. ὕπερθεν Il. 12.4 , cf. 25 sqq.; τ. ἐς ἀμφίχυτον (of heapedup earth) 20.145 ; Κιμμέρια τ. earthworks, Hdt. 4.12 ; but τ. λάϊνα E. Tr. 1087 (lyr.), cf. Th. 1.93 , etc.; λίθοις οὓς ἔλιπον εἰς τὸ τ. ἀναλίσκοντες IG 12.81.9 ; ξύλινον τεῖχος exceptionally, Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.141 , cf. 8.51 , 9.65 , Th. 2.75 , X. HG 1.3.4 , Orac. ap. Ar. Eq. 1040 ( Pi. uses this phrase for a funeral pile, P. 3.38 ); τ. χάλκεον Od. 10.3 ; τ. σιδηροῦν, τείχη χαλκᾶ καὶ ἀδαμάντινα, Ar. Eq. 1046 , Aeschin. 3.84 ; τειχέων κιθῶνες coats of walls, i.e. walls one within the other, Hdt. 7.139 ; τεῖχος ἐλαύνειν, v. ἐλαύνω 111.2 ; τ. ἔδειμαν Il. 7.436 ; οἰκοδομέειν Hdt. 1.98 , cf. Ar. Av. 1132 , etc.(τ. οἰκοδομήσασθαι to build oneself walls, Th. 7.11 ); τ. ἄξειν Id. 6.99 ; τὰ τ. στῆσαι D. 20.74 ; τ. περιβάλλειν ταῖς πόλεσι Arist. Pol. 1331a3 ; τ. περιβαλέσθαι build walls round one's city, Hdt. 1.141 , cf. Th. 1.8 , etc. (also τ. περιβαλέσθαι τὴν πόλιν Hdt. 1.163 :—hence Pass., τεῖχος περιβεβλημένος having a wall round it, Pl. Tht. 174e ; τείχη περιβεβλημένοι, of citizens, Arist. Pol. 1331a8 ); but also νῆσον περιβάλλεσθαι τείχει surround one's island with walls, Pl. Criti. 116a ; τ. ῥήξασθαι breach the wall, Il. 12.90 , cf. 257 ; τεῖχος ἀναρρήξας 7.461 ; so in Prose, τ. διαιρεῖν, περιαιρέειν, κατελεῖν κατασκάψαι, etc., Th. 2.75 , Hdt. 6.46 , 48 , Th. 4.109 , etc.

2). τὰ μακρὰ τ., at Athens, lines of wall connecting the city-wall (ὁ περίβολος) and the harbours, Th. 2.13 ; they were called respectively τὸ βόρειον or Peiraic, and τὸ νότιον or Phaleric wall ( Pl. R. 439e , Aeschin. 2.173 , 174 ), cf. σκέλος 11 : an intermediate wall (τὸ διὰ μέσου τ. Pl. Grg. 455e ) ran parallel to the northern, which was therefore called also τὸ ἔξωθεν, Th. 2.13 : the quarter inside the walls is sts. called τὸ μακρὸν τ. Long Wall, And. 1.45 .

II). fortification, castle, fort, Pi. Fr. 213 , Hdt. 3.14 , 91 , etc.

III). walled, fortified town or city, Id. 9.41 , 115 , X. Cyr. 7.5.13 , etc.

IV). wall of a temple, PEleph. 20.52 (iii B.C.); of a house, PHamb. 15.8 (iii A.D.), PStrassb. 9.8 (iv A.D.), etc. (Cf. Skt. dehmi 'anoint, smear, plaster', Goth. digan 'mould, create (= πλάσσω)', daigs 'dough', Lat. fingo, figura, Osc. feihúss 'walls', etc.)