Crossword-Solution: CHELYS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The Germans used the word Chelys to designate their Viols; and Christopher Simpson, in his famous treatise on the "Viol da Gamba," names it Chelys.

Grotesque, and unlike what we fancy a reality,--such as those creatures which the wild imagination of the painters of bygone days delighted in producing,--is the curious matamata (Chelys matamata), found along the banks of the Amazon, as well as in Guiana.

Doni[8] mentions the barbiton, defining it in his index as _Barbitos seu major chelys italice tiorba_, and deriving it from lyre and cithara in common with testudines, tiorbas and all tortoiseshell instruments.

The word _chelys_ was used in allusion to the oldest lyre of the Greeks which was said to have been invented by Hermes.

Numerous representations of the _chelys_ lyre or _testudo_ occur on the Greek vases, in which the actual tortoiseshell is depicted; a good illustration is given in _Le Antichità, di Ercolano_ (vol.