[ad. Gr. τειχοσκοπία, f. τεῖχος wall + -σκοπια, from -σκοπος -looking.] A looking from the walls; a descriptive title of the third book of Homer’s Iliad.
1875. Contemp. Rev., XXVI. 263. He [Ulysses] is by far the most prominent person in this portrait gallery of the Teichoscopy.
1890. Gladstone, Hom. Stud., II. § xvii. 43. In the Teichoscopy, when the armies are gathered in the field, Priam, on the walls, asks Helen for information respecting the persons of different chiefs who are present with their several contingents.
