Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλάβαστος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάβαστος

Etym.: Prob. a foreign word.

Sense

  1. a box or casket of alabaster

Examples

  • "εἶτ’ ἁλάβαστοσ εὐθέωσ ἥξει μύρου αὐτόματοσ, ὁ σπόγγοσ τε καὶ τὰ σάνδαλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:128)

Synonyms

  1. a box or casket of alabaster

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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